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train, anyway, and I got a good start learning from Burley.”
Sheppard started as assistant to trainer Joe Nash in Camden, S.C. “I learned quickly, since Joe left me in Camden with the young horses while he went off with his best runners first to Florida then New York,” he said.
“I remember learning by trial and a little error — like the time I had to school some 2-year-olds in the starting gate. I was a steeplechase jockey — we don’t use starting stalls. I figured it out, though, and learned by doing.”
Sheppard went out on his own in 1969, and though “...it was a struggle at first,” he was lucky enough to hang out his shingle at just the same time that his Pennsylvania neighbor George Strawbridge (heir to the Campbell’s soup fortune and owner of Augustin Stables) decided to expand his own breeding and farm training operation. “I started with five or six horses,” Sheppard said. “I’ve got 100 or more now.”
A confessed workaholic, Sheppard spends much of his time on the road from his Pennsylvania training barn to Delaware Park and other midAtlantic racetracks where his flat horses are stabled.
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