About Linda...

A native of Wisconsin, Linda is a third generation horse trainer having won her first race at Garden State Park in 1986. She grew up in the business and was an Exercise Rider/Assistant Trainer for many years. Linda studied Computer Science at Penn State University before deciding to train horses full time. She began her training career on the PA-NJ circuits and then moved the stable to the NY-FL circuits in 1991.

She currently races at Belmont Park, Saratoga Race Course, Aqueduct, Finger Lakes, Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs. She has built her racing team into one of the strongest in the country by purchasing and developing weanlings, yearlings and two-year-olds into racing prospects. She spends the winters in Florida and the summers in New York, giving her athletes the best possible chances at earning a profit for their owners.

Linda also trains for many successful partnerships like Trackmen Golf Club Stable (www.TrackmenGolfClub.com). In 2004, Linda, as agent for Solaris Racing, purchased a young precocious two-year-old filly by Horse Chestnut out of Ladue, who was later named Lucifer’s Stone. Through Linda’s hard work and dedication to the sport, she trained this highly successful stakes winning filly to be the winner of The Garden City Breeder’s Cup (G1), on September 12, 2004 for Solaris Racing. Linda continues to train and develop young thoroughbreds for both of these successful partnerships.

Career Highlights:

  • Won the first Grade 1 stakes race of her career when Things Change took the 1998 running of the Spinaway Stakes.
  • Trained two Grade 1 stakes winners in 1998, the aforementioned Things Change and Tenski, who won the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.
  • Became the first female trainer to win a Grade 1 stakes race at Keeneland, when Tenski won the Queen Elizabeth in October of 1998.
  • Concluded 1997 wtih 29 winners from 124 starters for a win percentage of 23. Her starters were in the money 56 percent of the time in 1997.
  • In 1995, she won the Astoria with Zee Lady and the Tremont with Rosie O’Greta, the only filly to win the Tremont in 105 years.
  • Trained Soldier Field, a three-year-old graded stakes winer on the turf, who equalled two records, one on the turf and one on the main track.
  • Campaigned numerous stakes horses, including Double Booked, Ready Jet Go, Shoot to Kill, Premiere Express, Zee Lady, Rosie O’Greta, Lady Lear, Torgan, The Silver Move, and Rapid Selection.
  • The following horses set course records for Rice: Fabulous Force at Saratoga; Zee Lady and Soldier Field at Aqueduct; Lady Lear at Belmont Park; and Double Booked at Laurel and Pimlico.