396:. Romans worked for his father from a young age. He once said, "I had a way with the horses. I could walk the worst horse in the country when I was 10 years old. My parents were divorced, and if my father had a bad horse he couldn't get on the van he'd come and get me at home to load the horse. I don't know what it was about horses, but they saved me as a child. The guys who worked for my dad took me in and I always felt at home here. I didn't have to worry about reading and writing. I could communicate with the horses. Whatever primal instinct we have with horses, we're connected to them."
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Jerry Romans once trained from Barn 4 at
Churchill Downs, which is now one of two barns used by his son. Romans said, "We have a great team from top to bottom. We have hotwalkers that have been with us for over 10 years. My assistants have been together since we were 19 and 20 working for my father.
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with Miss Mindy, who he had purchased for $ 1,500. His career was slow to take off. He won only four races in each of 1987 and 1989, and only 21 races in each of 1988 and 1990. It was not until 1991 that he won his first stakes race at
Turfway Park with Morning Punch, and not until 1996 that he won
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after finishing fourth in the Derby. Romans said, "It shows that anybody that gets started in the horse business can do this because, Lord knows, 25 years ago nobody thought I'd sit up here and talk about (winning) a classic race." Shackleford finished second in the
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Romans has been in a long-term relationship with Tammy Fox since the early 1990s. Fox is an exercise rider for the Romans stable, and was formerly a jockey. She was the first woman jockey to ride in the
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Romans' career slowly grew, with 2004 marking his breakout year when he jumped to the #8 ranked trainer by earnings in North
America. He achieved his first grade I victory with
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Dale Romans celebrates victory in the 2015 Travers Stakes
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852:"Trainer Dale Romans Gets 1,000th Victory"
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827:"Roses in May Retired with Tendon Injury"
1003:Horse trainers from Louisville, Kentucky
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776:"2004 Eclipse Turf Male: Kitten's Joy"
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686:"Another Romanesque Work of Art"
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123:Joe Hirsch Turf Classic
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168:Princess Rooney Stakes
562:Metropolitan Handicap
514:2011 Preakness Stakes
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153:Shoemaker Mile Stakes
548:to victories in the
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108:Cornhusker Handicap
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289:Significant horses
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248:Breeders' Cup Mile
163:Just A Game Stakes
138:La Troienne Stakes
130:(2005, 2011, 2015)
118:Secretariat Stakes
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362:Little Mike
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307:Little Mike
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987:Categories
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599:References
503:First Dude
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68:1966-08-14
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907:USA Today
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463:In 2005,
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