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In a career spanning 35 years, more than 150 major-stakes victories and $12 million in purses, Thoroughbred Trainer Woodford C. Stephens has rarely indulged himself as extravagantly as he did last week. He took off three entire days to savor the biggest win of his life: Cannonade's...
Not quite. Now, like any Derby winner, Cannonade has a shot at racing's Triple Crown, and Stephens would surely like to claim the big prize. The next step is Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico. "I wish the race were the day after tomorrow," announced Stephens after examining...
For Stephens, Cannonade's campaign was not the only job last week. Wiry and fit, he roamed around his "public stable" at New York's Belmont Park, keeping an eye on 35 other horses that belong to nine different owners and on 32 employees ranging from grooms and...
In the spectrum of racing trainers, Stephens falls somewhere between the late Max Hirsch of King Ranch, a taskmaster who might run nine horses into the ground to produce one Triple Crown champion like Assault, and Rokeby Stable's Elliott Burch, whose patience with a thoroughbred is almost limitless...
Judger's highly touted stablemate, Cannonade, faded from second to seventh in the same race. "What can I say? They got beat," trainer Woody Stephens stated prophetically after his two-horse entry, sent off as a 1-5 favorite, petered out in the stretch.