Maryland-based Motion Sends Six West For Fall Meet

Movement-trainee Script (#5 outdoors) got here from the again of the pack with a livid closing kick within the Let It Experience lacking by a nostril. Benoit Picture

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DEL MAR, Calif.—Coach Graham Movement has been bringing horses to Del Mar from his east coast base at Honest Hill, Maryland since 2014, making his seaside debut through the inaugural Bing Crosby meet. He’s already notched a stakes victory within the younger 2022 fall meet with Bipartisanship (GB) Saturday within the Kathryn Crosby Stakes. He additionally had a close to miss in Friday’s Let It Experience when his 3-year-old colt Script got here from the again of the pack with a livid closing kick and missed by a nostril.

So, nothing out of the extraordinary. Movement normally makes an affect wherever his horses race and there’s extra the place that got here from.

“We despatched 4 out (to Del Mar) on a Fed Ex this week,” Movement says, “after which Talking Scout stayed over from the Twilight Derby. He’ll run within the Hollywood Derby on the finish of the meet. So we’ll have half a dozen within the rotation.”

That’s par for the course for the 58-year-old conditioner who has been an annual participant on the Bing Crosby meet.

“It ties in very well with Keeneland simply because when Keeneland is over and we get again to the east coast there’s not plenty of grass racing left,” he famous. “Typically we’re on the market (on the west coast) anyway for the Breeders’ Cup so it really works nicely for us and it’s an ideal place to race.”

 The majority of Movement’s steady stays at Honest Hill Coaching Heart in Maryland, 350 acres set within the rolling hills of the Mid-Atlantic.

“We moved there 20 years in the past,” Movement says. “We will do our personal factor. We now have our personal facility, and we will go wherever we would like with our horses. We’re not tied to anyone. It’s a luxurious to have and it additionally allows us to do plenty of various things with the horses, we don’t must go to the racetrack each day.”

Over the previous a number of years, Movement has been scaling again on his operations whereas exploring locations to race.

“We used to have two barns at Honest Hill,” Movement says. “Then two years in the past we determined to consolidate a little bit bit and we bought one among them. I’m attempting to pay attention extra on high quality than amount. So we preserve 70 horses at Honest Hill after which Alice (Clapham, his assistant) is normally on the highway with a string, whether or not or not it’s at Saratoga or Del Mar. It’s even potential we would ship some to Santa Anita, we haven’t determined but.”

Movement has turn out to be one of the crucial revered trainers on the east coast. His involvement in racing dates again to his early years.

“My household was all the time concerned with horses,” Movement remembers. “My mother was one of many first females on the backstretch in America and my dad was an auctioneer for the Tattersall Public sale Firm so racing is just about in my blood.”

Movement has been coaching horses for almost 30 years. 

“I labored for Jonathan Shepherd,” he says. “That was my introduction to racing after I left highschool. I spent a season in Europe the place I met my spouse. Then I labored with Bernie Bond and when he retired in Maryland in 1993 I took over his license.

“I’ve been extremely lucky,” Movement continues. “Bernie acquired me off to a very nice begin and I’ve had some nice homeowners.”

And a few nice horses. Movement educated Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby and the 2013 Dubai World Cup. There was Higher Discuss Now, winner of the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Turf; Important Sequence, Eclipse Award successful grass champion in 2014 and most just lately 2019 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing. There may be additionally Imply Mary and Spendarella, his star 3-year-old filly who hasn’t raced since successful the Del Mar Oaks this summer season.

“We’ll most likely get her again underneath tack by Christmas time,” Movement says, “after which hope for a spring marketing campaign together with her.”

Within the meantime, regulate Script, a horse Movement as soon as thought could possibly be a Derby horse till he acquired sick this spring. If his run on opening day is any indication, there’s huge issues forward for the colt. And Movement is the one to make it occur.