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top-class handicaps and stakes races, it has been notably light on point-to-point offerings.
“I had a lot of good luck racing from Franklin, but in 1989, when Bruce [Haynes] asked me to set up and train at Holston Holjjpw in Bristol, I returned to that area,” explained Berryman.
The Midwest and the Virginia point-to-pointing circuits, as well as most of the nationally sanctioned races, are easily accessible from the tri-cities area of Tennessee. It is less than^jve hours to at least 50 race meetings throughout the country, a decided advantage to a race trainer.
The Haynes’ set-up allowed Berryman to place his runners carefiilly, racing at varied venues throughout the year. “In 1989, I started with eight horses, mostly owned by the Haynes’,” said Berryman. “That is when I got my start with Tony Garland.
“He owns a lumber yard in the Jonesborough area [just six miles from Holston Hollow],” he explained. “At the Haynes’, we all got our shavings from the mill. Tony also has a farm there and races his homebreds.”
As the latest chapter in the making of a steeplechase trainer unravels, Garland decided to give his friend Berryman a leg up as he began to build his private stable. “Me and Mike go back a few years,” Garland laughed in his Tennessee lilt. “He has always been a good horseman but is also and moreso a good friend.”
Proof of his confidence in his
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