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to sell,” he is quoted as saying.
Lexington-based English trainer Ian McCloskey concurs.
“When you have a good horse here in the U.S., you do not want to part with it. So to find new, classy talent, there are many options in other countries.”
The options are indeed exercised by a majority of steeplechase trainers, as most on the scene now have or have had at least one foreign-bred in the barn. But some trainers, like Dr. Joe Rogers, enjoy a predominance of foreigners in their string.
Rogers’ Hamilton training facility is filled with “chili-beans,” or Chilean-bred hurdlers and timber horses.
“In the ’60’s, when I first discovered Chile as a buyers’ market, eight Chilean-bred flat horses already held U.S. records — not just stakes records, but track records,” said Rogers.
“Cougar, Tisna — they were two of the best known.
“Now the I ram family has become very popular. There (in Chile), it is easy to follow and
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