2017 SEASON: enjoyed another solid season with 35 wins in Maryland, ranking seventh overall … was fourth with 12 wins and fifth with $348,528 in purse earnings at Laurel’s summer meet … ranked 10^th in wins (12) and purses ($337,561) at Laurel’s winter-spring stand … finished with 11 wins from 69 starters at Laurel’s year-ending fall stand … established a single-season career high for purse earnings.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: ranked eighth on the Maryland circuit with 34 wins in 2016…finished in the top 10 in purse earnings at Laurel’s fall, summer and winter-spring meets…his 14 wins were the fourth-most at Laurel fall, tying him for sixth in the standings…won the Fire Plug and Ben’s Cat stakes with Sonny Inspired…established a single-season career high with $1,227,382 in purses won…came to prominence with multiple graded stakes-winning filly Miss Behaviour, who captured the 2013 Sorority and Matron (G1) and 2014 Charles Town Oaks (G3) and Miss Preakness, which was not graded that year…Miss Behaviour also ran second in the Victory Ride (G3), Test (G1) and Prioress (G2) in 2014…went to work for trainer Todd Pletcher at the age of 19…while with Pletcher he met trainer Mark Shuman which led him to a job as trainer for owner Michael Gill in Florida…won his first stakes as a trainer on Dec. 31, 2003 with White Mountain Boy in the Maryland Juvenile Championship at Laurel…On Jan. 1, 2004, he won the Dancing Count Stakes with Kiowa Prince.

PERSONAL: grew up outside Chicago dreaming of becoming a jockey…spent four years in the Air Force…married, wife Sarah and children Bryn, Jason and Emerson.