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eddie woods
Consistency Kathleen Donovan meets Eddie Woods, a leading US two-year-old trainer, consignor and multiple producer of winning stakes horses
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he success that Eddie Woods has achieved as a consignor and trainer is too consistent and too high to be simply the result of luck, which is his own conclusion. To be fair, Woods is a born and bred Irishman having come to the US from County Meath, and Irishmen are not often given to the depths of self-analysis to which Americans are so accustomed. If he had only consigned the undefeated dual Classic winner Big Brown, it might have been considered merely a lucky strike.
Photography by Z But nearly 50 Graded stakes winners have graduated from Woods’s training and sales programme, and he was the leading consignor of Grade 1 winners as long ago as 2002. He rounded off 2010 with more Graded stakes winners (eight), stakes winners (12), and stakes horses (24) than any other twoyear-old consignor. His top horse of 2010 was the millionaire earner Haynesfield, whose decisive defeat of Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Blame in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) made him the 13th Grade 1 winner trained by Woods. Other Successful two-year-old trainer Eddie Woods
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