Jonathan E. Sheppard

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rdf:langString Jonathan Sheppard

rdf:langString Jonathan Sheppard

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rdf:langString Jonathan E. Sheppard (born December 2, 1940 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England) is an English Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing. Sheppard came to the United States in 1961 and in 1966 won his first race with Haffaday in a steeplechase event at My Lady's Manor, Maryland. In 1973 he won his first earnings championship in steeplechase racing. He went on to win the earnings title another twenty-three times. He has trained the winner of four Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase and holds the record for most wins in the with eleven. Sheppard is the only trainer to win the American steeplechase Triple Crown, doing it with Flatterer, the only horse to win the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse four years in a row. In addition to steeplechase racing, Sheppard has met with considerable success in flat racing. In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge Jr., and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. In 1990, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 2004, Sheppard was elected president of the National Steeplechase Association. In 2008, Sheppard joined fellow Hall of Famee inductee as the only men in American racing to have trained a champion over both jumps and on the flat. As of 2010, Sheppard's horses have won twelve Eclipse Awards: * (1973) * Cafe Prince (1977, 1978) * (1979) * Flatterer (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986) * (1988) * (1989) * Forever Together (2008) * Informed Decision (2009) * (2013)

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