The quick news: Ricardo E. Legall used to be an exercise rider in the nyra circuit until recently. Congratulations on his first victory and we wish him the best of luck for many more.
Why am I posting this? Read on....
In what is turning out to be a humorous discussion, the victory of a filly named Jealous (foaled 2009) in a maiden race (6F) in her 7th career start, is generating a lot of buzz on the horse racing site/handicapping forum paceadvantage.
The original poster noted that this filly had fairly subpar performances till she switched to a new trainer, Ricardo E. Legall, and won her maiden race. The interesting matter was that this seems to be the first ever race for this trainer (at least if we go by Equibase stats). So, as of now, Ricky Legall has a 100% trainer win rate.
Now, the thread got humorous when one poster (and I thought about this too but didn't mention it there) started speculating about the trainer's name and how it sounds when you pronouce the middle initial and the last name together. Go ahead, try it ;).
Since the thread was getting hot and I was getting quite curious about this trainer, I tried a few different searches on google, duckduckgo and bing. I found relevant answers quickly! But first...
Off topic slightly: During this search I came across a gem of a document showcasing various NYRA trainers here. [pdf download]Back on topic: I found out that this mysterious new entrant into the NYRA training circuit, is not that mysterious at all. He seems to have been a regular exercise rider with several horses for leading trainer Anthony Dutrow. Below is a clip of him riding J W Blue in Aug 2011. We could say this with a high degree of accuracy. A source at NYRA confirmed that Ricky Legall did work as an exercise rider before and was happy to hear that Ricky won his first race!
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