South Florida trainer Jose Pinchin and recently retired Ocala rancher Bert Pilcher has partnered with several generations of horses for nearly two decades. In all that time, Pinchin never spoke of the horses’ talents before they first started – until being bred in Florida. Atom who is expected to compete in the NetJets Breeders’ Cup for Minors (G1).
“Jose is not a guy who never brags about a horse before he runs it,” says Pilcher. “But one morning, this trash popped up, and I called him. I just casually said, ‘How’s it going?’ He said, “I shouldn’t say this, but I will. She is a runner. She’s the best you’ve sent me in a long time.” And he was right.”
Pilcher raises horses on his Shade Tree Farm, property purchased by his father in 1980, until his retirement in 2021, and for many years ran a training stable as well as to start the horses. . He sent multiple people to Pinchin to train, and together they won, by Pilcher’s count, 11 stakes in the Florida Sires Stakes program.
Pilcher bred many of them, but in Atomally’s case, Pinchin’s wife, Tracy, bred these in collaboration with Michael Bernard of Jamaica. Jose Pinchin was originally from Jamaica, where he began his coaching career. Bernard has been the top owner in Jamaica for the past three years, he said, as well as the second top breeder there two years ago.
Pinchin trained Tracy and Bernard Atom through her first three warm-ups, all in Gulfstream Park. She finished third in her debut on August 19, atomizing a seven-segment female field on September 2. She followed that with a 6 3/4 victory in the FTBOA Florida Sire My Dear Girl Staking October 1st.
Within a week, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners had made a deal to buy half the interest in Atomally, who had moved into trainer Todd Pletcher’s stable in the Hall of Fame. The Pinchins sold their profits to the cat, while Bernard sold a portion of his profits, keeping half of the ownership in her hands. Eclipse and their partner Harry Colburn own the other half.
Pilcher foaled Atom as well as her dam, Not collected mare Shesun can’t believe it . Another of his clients, John Penn, raised Shesun Believable, who went through two Ocala Breeders Company purchases, with Pinchin buying her for $29,000 in a 2017 sale in October. October 2017.
An OBS sale is where Pinchin and Pilcher first met.
Jose Pinchin
Pinchin said: “I bought a dirty item in his consignment. “I went back to the barn and asked him if he would keep her for me, and we were together for 18-20 years.”
Shade Tree is bred Three rules 2014’s son of Lost , cooperate and just race with him. Pinchin coached the Three Rules for Winning in three Florida Sires Stocks in 2016 — Dr. Fager, Affirmation, and Reality. He also applied the Three Rules in that year’s Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) to finish in sixth place behind the winner. Classic Empire .
Bernard, a retired executive of a tobacco company, lives in Louisville, Ky., Khi Fusaichi Pegasus and Monarchos won the Kentucky Derby (G1) in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He has been playing Kentucky Oaks (G1) for a year, loves the game and has owned a horse since 2008.
“Around 2010, I started buying my horses at the OBS store in Ocala,” says Bernard. “Since that time, I have purchased horses from Ocala to race in Jamaica as well as the United States. Danbury was my first and most successful horse in the United States. “
Coached by Bill Kaplan, whose fees include the 2011 Eclipse Championship female sprinter Romantic music Danbury won the 2016 OBS Sprint Stakes. Bernard’s other runners included Sunshine N Shadow who made $123,120 training by Stanley Gold.
Bernard said: “Sunshine N Shadow is now a stallion in Jamaica.
Bernard said about 20-25% of racehorses in Jamaica are purchased in the US, with the remainder mostly Jamaican hybrids. Bernard has about 40 horses in Jamaica.
Atomically the first horse that Bernard bred in America. She is the first pony from the Shesun region.
“She’s actually a pretty dirty person,” Pinchin said of Shesun incredulously. “A week before the race, she jumped to her knees. So we really raised her into a 3-year-old.”
Pinchin bred the unbelievable Shesun Girvin , winner of betfair.com Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) in 2017 and a stallion in Florida at the time. Girvin has since moved to Kentucky. The following spring, Atomally was herded on Pilcher’s ranch, and he oversaw her early case-solving and training for Pinchin.
“She was always a big and strong person,” says Pilcher. “She’s a pony, but she’s like no other. She’s tough – you can do what you need to do with her, but you’re not going to make her do anything. She is. always do everything right. As long as you let her know what you like, she will follow.”
Pinchin wishes Atomally’s new relationships well and will be the source for her victory in Juvenile Fillies. He and Bernard still possess the unbelievably Shesun, who has a longing lust by Khozan and are in the pony to Uncle Chuck .
