Tampabay downs media guide 16-0273-JK2

Trainer Profiles
Eoin Harty
Born: November 23, 1962
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Residence: Arcadia, CA
Family: Wife, Kathy; son, Eddie
Started Training: 2000, West Coast
Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Arlington International, southern California
A fourth-generation horseman, Harty has forged a tremendous record of
success since moving to the United States at 17 following one year at the Irish
National Stud. He spent 14 years as an assistant trainer in southern California,
first with John Russell and then with Bob Baffert. Harty was part of the Baffert
team when Silver Charm and Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby and
Preakness in 1997 and 1998. Once on his own, Harty burst onto the national
scene in 2001, sending out Tempera to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies
as well as saddling the runner-up, Imperial Gesture. Tempera received an
Eclipse Award as Champion 2-Year-Old Filly. Harty earned the richest victory
of his career in 2009 when Well Armed won the $6-million Dubai World Cup
by a record 14 lengths. That followed an outstanding 2008 campaign when
the trainer won seven graded stakes, including the Goodwood with Well
Armed and the Santa Anita Derby and Travers with Colonel John. Other
Grade I winners for Harty include Victor’s Cry and Dubai Escapade. Harty’s
great-grandfather began his racing career in Ireland in 1880, working as both
a jockey and a trainer. Eoin’s grandfather Cyril trained Knight’s Crest, winner
of the 1944 Irish Grand National. His father, Eddie, was an accomplished
equestrian who competed in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and later won
the Grand National Steeplechase as a jockey. Harty met his wife Kathy in 1986
when she was exercising horses for Russell.
David Hinsley
Born: August 25, 1948
Birthplace: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Residence: Oldsmar, FL
Family: Wife, Sharon
Started Training: 1985, Sportsman’s Park
Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Indiana Grand
Hinsley has been managing Hinsley Racing Stable for more than 30 years.
He began his career at 16 as a jockey in Australia, two years after his parents
moved “Down Under” from Canada. After their return, Hinsley worked helping
Spendthrift Farm prepare young horses for their introduction to racing before
becoming assistant trainer to W.H. “Jinks” Fires for 10 years. Hinsley opened
his own stable in 1986, the same year he and Sharon, also an assistant trainer,
were married. A hands-on trainer, Hinsley views each horse on its own terms
and is comfortable working with any kind of horse. Hinsley trained Rumor Has
It to win the Grade III Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes in 2008; the gelding still lives
at the track in a barn for winners of that event. In 2015 at Tampa Bay Downs,
the Hinsleys won the Minaret Stakes with their 5-year-old mare You Bought Her,
owned in partnership with Richard Perkins. You Bought Her was a 16-1 shot,
but the real reward for the Hinsleys came in bringing her back from a fall in the
Grade III Arlington-Washington Lassie as a 2-year-old. She did not win again
until March of her 4-year-old season at Tampa Bay Downs. You Bought Her
successful defended her Minaret title in 2016.
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