LINDA RICE

2016 RECORD

492 - 136, 76, 74 

$5,209,171

2016 NYRA RECORD

364 - 91, 55, 55 

$4,181,920

NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPION

La Verdad: Top Female Sprinter (2015)

NEW YORK TRAINING TITLES

* 2012 Aqueduct spring, 13 wins

* 2011 Belmont spring/summer, 25 (tie)

* 2011 Aqueduct spring, 9 (tie)

* 2009 Saratoga, 20

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

* Trained first Eclipse Award winner La Verdad to five stakes wins and a runner-up finish in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in 2015

* In 2014, won two G1’s with Palace, a $20,000 claim and son of former star pupil City Zip

* Recorded her official 1,000th win as a trainer at Belmont Park on July 17, 2011 with Sextant, owned by her father, Clyde

* Became the first woman to win a training title in New York by saddling 20 winners at Saratoga in 2009, edging Todd Pletcher by a single victory

* Her Saratoga training title marked the first ever by a woman at a top racetrack

* Presented with the Fourstardave Award for Outstanding Achievement in Saratoga in 2000 by the New York Turf Writers Association

* Saddled City Zip to sweep Saratoga’s Sanford, Saratoga Special and Hopeful in 2000, the fourth juvenile to do so

* Won first Grade 1 with Things Change in the 1998 Spinaway

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

* Studied computer science at Penn State

* Serves as a board member of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association & the Backstretch Committee of NYRA

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

* Third-generation trainer; she was an exercise rider and assistant to her father Clyde and went on her own in 1987 at age 23

FIRST WINNER

* Contraboss, 1987, Garden State Park

NEW YORK AND GRADE 1 STAKES

Awakino Cat: Troy (2009-2010) Canadian Ballet: NYSS Fifth Avenue (2007)

City Zip: Amsterdam (2001); Hopeful (2000); Saratoga Special (2000); Sanford (2000);

Tremont (2000)

Double Booked: Bernard Baruch (1991)

Flatterywillgetyou: Bouwerie (2016)

Frazil: Gravesend (2011)

Hot City Girl: Union Avenue (2016)

In Te Domine: NYSS Statue of Liberty (2010)

Kid Cruz: Excelsior (2016); Dwyer (2014); Easy Goer (2014)

La Verdad: Interborough (2016); Gallant Bloom H. (2015); Distaff H. (2014-15); Iroquois (2015); Vagrancy H. (2015); Dancin Renee (2014-15); Iroquois (2014); Dancin Renee (2014); Critical Eye (2014)

Lady Lear: Just a Game (1992)

Lucifer’s Stone: Garden City (2004)

Mark My Way: NYSS Cab Calloway (2014); NYSS Spectacular Bid (2014)

Marriedtothemusic: Affirmed Success (2014)

Miss Narcissist: NYSS Fifth Avenue (2013); Joseph A. Gimma (2013)

Mother Russia: NYSS Park Avenue (2009); NYSS Cupecoy’s Joy (2009); NYSS Statue of Liberty (2009); NYSS Staten Island (2009)

Palace: Hudson H. (2015); Forego (2014); A. G. Vanderbilt H. (2014); True North (2014); Fall Highweight H. (2013); Hudson H. (2013)

Princess Sweet: NYSS Park Avenue (2005)

Princess Violet: Madison (2015)

Rapid Selection: Athenia (1997)

Second in Command: Best Turn (2003)

Sheriffa: Critical Eye (2015)

Tenski: QE II Challenge Cup (1998)

The Silver Move: Remsen (1996)

Things Change: Spinaway (1998); Adirondack (1998)

Twilight Time: Cowdin (1999)

Uncle Southern: Union Avenue (2014)

Yankee Tradition: Schenectady (2000)