Rodolphe Brisset has been hired as the new head trainer for WinStar Farm, according to bloodhorse.com. The French native will oversee the horses at the WinStar training center, 20 stalls at Keeneland on Rice Road, and 12 stalls at Saratoga this summer.
Brisset has trained for WinStar since the beginning of his career, helping with the early training of horses like Justify.
“We have had a change in direction for the farm and decided to focus more on Kentucky racing with our horses, so we hired Rodolphe to come to the training center at WinStar Farm,” WinStar president, CEO, and racing manager Elliott Walden told bloodhorse.com. “We will race off the training center, similar to how Graham Motion does at the Fair Hill Training Center and Todd Pletcher at Palm Beach Downs.”
Walden added that WinStar will continue to employ the services of outside trainers, as well.
Meanwhile, eight-year WinStar veteran Destin Heath, who took over the head training job from Richard Budge in October of 2018, will prepare to begin training under his own name.
“It has been a great opportunity to be at WinStar, and I'm very grateful for the people, horses, and the relationships I was able to develop while I was there,” Heath told bloodhorse.com. “It was a steppingstone to give me the confidence to go on and do my own thing, eventually under my own banner.”
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