Linda L. Rice
Linda L. Rice (born March 7, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer and bloodstock agent. A trainer of graded stakes race winners and licensed since 1987, she has won multiple trainer titles at major race meets in the eastern United States.
Background[]
The daughter of trainer who died on January 30, 2017, her brothers Curt, Bryan and Wayne also became involved in Thoroughbred racing.[3]
Since 2002, Rice has been a Board member of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (NYTHA).[4]
Notable runners[]
In 2000, Rice trained the colt , from the Adena Springs breeding farm of Frank Stronach, one of only four horses to win the Hopeful, Saratoga Special, and Sanford Stakes for two-year-olds.[5]
On August 18, 2008 at the Saratoga track, Rice's horses finished 1-2-3-4 in the Mechanicville Stakes.[6]
In 2015, La Verdad was voted the Eclipse Award for American Champion Female Sprint Horse, the first horse trained by Rice to be honored with a year-end championship.[7]
Career Record[]
On January 12, 2020, Linda Rice won the 2000th race of her career when Scilly Cay captured the Rego Park Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.[8]
Starts: 10,860 1st: 2,018 2nd: 1,635 3rd: 1,510 Purses earned: $81,514,078 (As of 4/3/20)
As reported by equibase
Training titles[]
In 2009, Rice became the first woman in the modern era to win a trainer's title at a major U.S. racing circuit. She did so at Saratoga Race Course. She won the award with 75 starters, to the 135 starters of second-place finisher Todd Pletcher.[9]
In addition to her win at Saratoga Racecourse in 2009, in 2011-2012 Rice won back-to-back training titles at Aqueduct Racetrack. In July 2011 she tied Todd Pletcher for top honors in the Spring/Summer meet at Belmont Park.[10]
In 2017, having taken a stable of runners to the Laurel Park Spring meet in Maryland for the first time, Rice tied for the training title in number of wins, doing so with a 53% winning percentage. She had 51 starters to the 128 of her co-win leader, Keiron Magee.[11]
References[]
- ^ NYRA profile Linda Rice Retrieved July 28, 2019
- ^ N Retrieved July 28, 2017
- ^ February 1, 2017 Daily Racing Form (DRF) Retrieved July 24, 2017
- ^ NYTHA profile of Linda Rice Retrieved July 28, 2017
- ^ October 31, 2001 ESPN story titled "City Zip retired to New York farm" Retrieved July 27, 2017
- ^ August 29, 2013 Forbes,com story titled "Thoroughbred Trainer Linda Rice A Groundbreaker For Women In Racing" retrieved July 27, 2017
- ^ Daily Racing Form (DRF) January 6, 2016 story on the 2015 Eclipse Awards Retrieved July 30, 2017
- ^ "Linda Rice Gets 2000th Career Win". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1942-06-27. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ ESPN Sports September 10, 2009 story titled "Rice becomes Spa's top trainer" Retrieved July 7, 2017
- ^ July 17 of 2011 Paulick Report story titled "Linda Rice gets win 1,000, earns share of Belmont meet title" Retrieved July 27, 2017
- ^ May 8, 2017 Thoroughbred Daily News (TDN) story titled "With 53% Winners, Rice Ties for Laurel Title" Retrieved July 23, 2017
- 1964 births
- Living people
- American female horse trainers
- Sportspeople from Racine, Wisconsin
- American horse trainers
- 21st-century American women