A little over a year into her training career, Lindsay Schultz already has victories at five tracks and a stakes placing.
Schultz is now off and running at the 2022-2023 Oaklawn meeting that began Dec. 9, scoring in Friday's seventh race with Tiger Moon ($41) for her major client, Ten Strike Racing (founding partners Marshall Gramm and Arkansan Clay Sanders). Tiger Moon represented the 14th career victory for Schultz, 34, who struck out on her own in the fall of 2021 after previously assisting Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.
Schultz recorded her first career victory Jan. 8, 2022, at Oaklawn with Capture the Glory ($36.80) for Ten Strike. Schultz added three more victories at the 2021-2022 Oaklawn meeting before moving to Monmouth Park, where she won six races from just 27 starts.
Reflecting the growth of her stable, Schultz came to Oaklawn last season with seven horses, including six for Ten Strike, but has 17 stalls in 2022-2023.
“We obviously want to do better, but we've gotten more horses,” Schultz said. “I would like to get some more owners, but the ones that I have are really good.”
Schultz said her stable again features hard-knocking older horses like Alex Joon, who finished second, beaten a half-length, in the $125,000 Edward P. Evans Stakes last July at Colonial Downs. Schultz, on behalf of Ten Strike, claimed Alex Joon for $30,000 last December at Oaklawn. Schultz said she also has several 2-year-olds, including Cecile for a new client, Choctaw Racing Stable (Perry Sutherland).
Among the most successful owners in Oaklawn history, Choctaw has campaigned, among others, Oaklawn stakes winners Hot Jaws, Tyus, Sister Act and Officer Alex. Officer Alex (2013 Bachelor) was the penultimate Oaklawn stakes winner for the late Lynn Whiting, best known as the trainer of 1992 Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee. Hot Jaws, Tyus and Sister Act – all active in the 1990s – were trained by the late Jeff Jacobs.
Schultz said Sutherland and one of her owners, Scott Galloway, are good friends. They've always partnered on horses in the past. From the first crop of Grade 1 winner Mendelssohn, Cecile was purchased for $150,000 last May at Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic sale of 2-year-olds in training. She finished sixth in her Nov. 16 career debut at Churchill Downs.
“She ran good,” Schultz said. “Showed some speed, ranged up to some freak of Brad Cox (Dazzling Blue). I like her.”
Cecile worked a half-mile in :48 Monday morning in advance of a planned start Dec. 31, the first scheduled program in Oaklawn history exclusively for 2-year-olds.
In addition to Oaklawn and Monmouth, Schultz later won races at Colonial Downs, Delaware Park and Churchill Downs. She had a horse entered Thursday at Turfway Park. Through Wednesday, Schultz had started 85 horses this year, with her horses generating $594,963 in purse earnings.
“It was pretty good,” Schultz said of her post-2021-2022 Oaklawn showing. “Monmouth was a good place for us to go, just to get some wins and to get some more horses.”
The post Trainer Lindsay Schultz Off And Running At Oaklawn Park Meet appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.
