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DALE ROMANS

DALE ROMANS
Birthdate - Aug. 14, 1966
Birthplace - Louisville, KY
Residence - Louisville, KY
Family - Partner Tammy, daughter Bailey and son Jacob
Website - daleromansracing.com

2016 RECORD

433 - 56, 66, 47 

$4,549,369

2016 NYRA RECORD

22 - 1, 1, 2 

$281,812

NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPIONS

Kitten’s Joy: Top Turf Male (2004)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

* Trained Brody’s Cause to Grade 1 wins in the Blue Grass Stakes (2016) and Breeders’ Futurity (2015)

* In 2015, trained Keen Ice to become the only horse to defeat Triple Crown winner American Pharoah during his historic 3-year-old season, winning the Travers

* Won 2012 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer after winning major races throughout

the country, including the Breeders’ Cup Turf and Arlington Million with Little Mike, the Met Mile and Clark Handicap with Shackleford, and the Blue Grass and Pacific Classic with Dullahan

* Won his first Triple Crown race in 2011 when Shackleford took the Preakness, and won that year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile with 64-1 Court Vision

* Trained Kitten’s Joy, who won the 2004 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and the Secretariat en route to the Eclipse as Top Turf Male

* Won the 2004 Whitney with Roses in May, who went on to capture the following year’s Dubai World Cup

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

* Worked as an assistant to his late father, Jerry

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

* Grew up on the Churchill Downs backstretch

FIRST WINNER

* 1987, Turfway Park

NEW YORK AND GRADE 1 STAKES

Afleeting Lady: Turnback the Alarm (2012)

Birdatthewire: La Brea (2015)

Brody’s Cause: Blue Grass (2016); Breeders’ Futurity (2015)

Court Vision: Breeders’ Cup Mile (2011)

C. S. Silk: Just a Game (2011)

Dawn of War: Breeders’ Futurity (2005)

Dullahan: Pacific Classic (2012); Blue Grass (2012); Breeders’ Futurity (2011)

Keen Ice: Travers (2015)

Kitten’s Joy: Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational (2004); Secretariat (2004)

Little Mike: Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (2013); Breeders’ Cup Turf (2012); Arlington Million

(2012); Turf Classic (2012)

Molly Morgan: La Troienne (2015)

On the Bus: Yaddo (2005); Ticonderoga (2004)

O’Prado Again: Remsen (2011)

Paddy O’Prado: Secretariat (2010)

Quick Wit: Hall of Fame (2012)

Roses in May: Whitney (2004)

Sassy Image: Princess Rooney H. (2011); Humana Distaff (2011)

Shackleford: Clark H. (2012); Metropolitan H. (2012); Preakness (2011)

Sharp Humor: Sleepy Hollow (2005); Bertram Bongard (2005)

Silver Max: Turf Mile (2013); Bernard Baruch H. (2013)

Tapitsfly: First Lady (2012); Just a Game (2012)

Temper Mint Patty: Joseph A. Gimma (2014)

Thorn Song: Shoemaker Mile (2009); Turf Mile (2008)

Will He Shine: True North (2007)

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