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Keith Sirota

Versailles,KY

Summary

With over 45 years of experience in the horse racing industry, including a significant tenure at Alan Goldberg Racing Stable, I have demonstrated exceptional skills as both a Trainer, assistant trainer and as a rider. My career highlights include training multiple stakes-winning horses, amassing over $1.5 million in earnings, and exercising champions like 1992 Eclipse award winner Rubiano, Multiple Graded Stakes winners Scan, Slavic, Nannerl, Mazatleca, Aurora and many more top horses.

My empathetic nature and organizational abilities complement my professional achievements.

Overview

45
45
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Trainer

Nicholas P Zito Racing
Lexington, Kentucky
04.2023 - 07.2023

Trainer

Island Breeze Racing stable
Hallandale, FL
05.1996 - 05.2015
  • Multiple graded stakes places and multiple stakes winning trainer of over $1.5 million.
  • Knowledgeable and proficient horseman and rider. Good hands and able to work with any demeanor of horse.
  • Good communicator and organizer having run and managed barns up to 30 plus horses.

Assistant Trainer /Exercise Rider

Alan Goldberg Racing
Oceanport, NJ
01.1993 - 05.1996
  • Assistant trainer and exercise rider. Took horses to Florida for the winter racing season overseeing the winter racing division.

Exercise Rider

Scotty Schulhofer
Elmont, NY
05.1989 - 11.1992
  • Exercised many Graded stakes winning horses for Hall of Fame trainer Scotty Schulhofer such as Champion Sprinter Rubiano, 1992 eclipse award winner, Graded Stakes winning Aurora, dam of Graded stakes winner Arch and sire of Blame, Multiple graded stakes winner Nannerl, Scan, Slavic and many more top horses.

Assistant Trainer/Exercise Rider

Alan Goldberg Racing Stable
Oceanport, NJ
02.1981 - 12.1988
  • Assistant trainer and exercise rider for over 12 years to Alan Goldberg, a multiple graded stakes-winning trainer of over $42 million, and trainer of champion sprinter Safely Kept.

Exercise Rider

Monmouth Park Racetrack
Oceanport, NJ
06.1978 - 09.1980
  • Summers exercising horses at Monmouth Park Racetrack.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Education

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
05-1980

Skills

  • Good communicator and organizer
  • Excellent rider with good hands and patience
  • Skilled horseman with over 45 years of experience
  • Empathetic to the needs of others and able to handle difficult situations should they arise
  • Affable personality but serious when necessary

Accomplishments

  • I was the first Trainer in the United States to get clients over the Internet in 1996 including training a unraced 2 year old filly named Turn Off The Light for a Japanese Racing Team know as CyberBreeders Stable. TOTL went on to become a stakes winning filly over over $115,000.
  • After multiple newspaper stories written about my Internet connections having received multiple clients over the Internet, I was featured on ESPS's Thoroughbred World in November of 1997.
  • Successful Horse Breeder having bred multiple winners from a small band of broodmares including the stakes placed Dos De Mayo.
  • Experience in purchasing 2 year olds in both Public Auctions and private purchases, including Multiple Graded Stakes Placed winner of over $220,000 Wacky For Love, 2002 OBS April.
  • In 1999 won the Inaugural Claiming Crown Express Stakes with Pioneer Spirit who was claimed 3 starts prior for $10,000.

Timeline

Assistant Trainer

Nicholas P Zito Racing
04.2023 - 07.2023

Trainer

Island Breeze Racing stable
05.1996 - 05.2015

Assistant Trainer /Exercise Rider

Alan Goldberg Racing
01.1993 - 05.1996

Exercise Rider

Scotty Schulhofer
05.1989 - 11.1992

Assistant Trainer/Exercise Rider

Alan Goldberg Racing Stable
02.1981 - 12.1988

Exercise Rider

Monmouth Park Racetrack
06.1978 - 09.1980

Bachelor of Science - Education

Indiana State University
Keith Sirota