Fair Hill Training Center

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Barbaro walking to the track at Fair Hill a week after winning the Kentucky Derby.

Fair Hill Training Center is a racehorse training center based in Fair Hill, Maryland. There are 17 barns, with more than 450 stalls. Each barn has its own set of turn out paddocks and porta pads. There are two race tracks, a mile dirt track and a 7/8ths mile wood chip track. There are about 3,000 acres of grasslands and woods which can be used by trainers to take their horses out on trails when they are not going to the track.

1 Trainers
2 Location
3 Major Successes
4 Disease Outbreaks
5 External links

[edit] Trainers

Current trainers at Fair Hill include Alex Balwin, Victoria Battaglini, Klobia Carroll, Victor Chung, Billy Entenmann, Dr. John Fisher, Pat Graham, Ricky Hendricks, Tuck Hunter, Bruce Jackson, Judge Jackson, Steve Klesaris, Chuck Lawrence, Richard Lugovich, Michael Matz (trainer of Barbaro), Bobby Manchio, Chuck Martin, Michael McCarthy, Jim McGreevy, Edwin Merryman, Liz Merryman, Michael Moran, Graham Motion (Better Talk Now), Paul Rowland, Jose Samaniego, Mark Shuman, Mike Rea, Richard Trimmer, Gene Weymouth, Debbie Wiggins, and Tim Woolley.

[edit] Location

Fair Hill has proximity to many racetracks, which include Delaware Park (racetrack), Laurel and Pimlico Race Course (MD), Philadelphia Park and Penn National (PA), Monmouth Park Racetrack and the Meadowlands Racetrack, Aqueduct Racetrack and Belmont Park (NY), and Charlestown (WV).

[edit] Major Successes

Fair Hill's grade one successes include the Kentucky Derby (Barbaro), the Breeders' Cup Turf (Better Talk Now), Breeders' Cup Distaff (Round Pond), the Arlington Million (Kicken Kris). and The Queen Elizabeth II (Fim Maker).

[edit] Disease Outbreaks

In early 2006, an outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) occurred in Maryland. This outbreak forced Fair Hill, on January 22, to restrict all horses coming into the facility. In February, two horses developed a fever and were tested for EHV, one of which tested positive, and the horses in the infected barn were quarrentined. Other horses were tested later in the month, and 10 of the 37 horses tested positive. However, no horses ever showed signs of the neurological form of the disease. A final test was performed in March, and all the horses in the affected barn came back with negative results.