Our Trainers

Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown trains all of the Castle Village Farm horses currently at the race track — Bishop of Nola, In Just We Trust, and Rigby. So far, he’s done very well for us, with better than 90% of our horses finishing in the money. We hope that’s a record that goes on forever.

Bruce, who worked for Tim Hills and then for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, went out on his own in 2008 and had a stellar debut year, winning more than 20% of his races. He’s still winning at the same pace so far in 2011, and has built his barn up to more than 40 horses for a wide variety of owners.

Bruce’s barn is right on the edge of the Belmont training track. Despite his busy mornings at the barn, he’s always willing to take time out to welcome partners at the barn and to share his training insights with them.

David Cohen & Bruce Brown

Bill Turner

Bill Turner has trained some of Castle Village Farm’s best horses, including Introspect, Just Zip It, Seaside Salute and Raf and Ready. Bill is perhaps best known as trainer of the Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. More recently, Bill’s trained the graded-stakes winners Punch Line, Gaviola, Smock and Finery.

Bill and Castellano

What we like about Bill’s training methods are the care that he devotes to each individual horse, and the patience he displays in bringing horses to the races only when they’re ready. That requires patience on our part as well, but in the long run it’s better for the horse.