Barclay Tagg
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Barclay Tagg is a trainer of race horses, most famous for conditioning Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide...and now for the up-and-coming Showing Up, as well as No Biz Like Shobiz (by Albert the Great, out of Nightstorm by Storm Cat). He trains horses year round in New York, and in Florida during the winter. His assistant trainer is Robin Smullen.
Formerly a steeplechase jockey, Tagg won his first race in 1972 at Old Liberty Park. He has been a journeyman trainer for many years now, and with Funny Cide became the first trainer to win the Kentucky Derby in his first attempt since Cam Gambolati with Spend a Buck in 1985.
Like the famous trainer of Seabiscuit, the silent Tom Smith, Tagg has a long-standing reputation of being conservative and judicious, so when he gets aggressive with a colt, people pay him heed.
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"You enabled a New York-bred gelding to transcend the Sport of Kings and infiltrate mainstream America like no other horse in the last 30 years." ---Steve Haskin
"That's all I do. I don't play golf. I don't go bowling. I don't go to Disneyland. I just take good care of the horses and wait for something good to happen. It took me 30-some years but this lovely thing came along." ---Barclay Tagg on Funny Cide
