Barclay Tagg
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| Barclay Tagg | ||
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| Occupation: | Horse trainer | |
| Birthplace: | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States | |
| Birth date: | December 30, 1937 | |
| Career wins: | Ongoing | |
| Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | ||
| Major Racing Wins | ||
| Alabama Stakes (2003) Jockey Club Gold Cup (2004) Coolmore Lexington Stakes (2006) Colonial Turf Cup (2006) Secretariat Stakes (2006) Jamaica Breeders' Cup Handicap (2006) Hollywood Derby (2006) Remsen Stakes (2006) Holy Bull Stakes (2007) Wood Memorial Stakes (2007, 2008) Red Smith Handicap (2007) Mrs. Revere Stakes (2007) Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (2007) Futurity Stakes (2007) U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Stakes (2007) Kent Breeders' Cup Stakes (2007) Jamaica Handicap (2007) Tampa Bay Derby (2008) American Classics |
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| Significant Horses | ||
| Funny Cide, Nobiz Like Shobiz, Showing Up Bit of Whimsy Big Truck, Tale of Ekati |
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Barclay Tagg (born December 30, 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. A 1961 graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Animal Husbandry, he is best known for conditioning Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide...and now for the impressive stable he's been able to build after Funny Cide, his "Big Horse" (term for the horse that puts the trainer "on the map"). With horses like Showing Up and Nobiz Like Shobiz, his stable is growing. Barclay trains horses year round: Spring in New York, Winter in Florida. His assistant trainer is Robin Smullen. (Photos of Tagg and Smullen can be found on the Funny Cide article.)
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.
[edit] Quotations
Q - "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
A - "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
