FAIR HILLS, Md.--A number of trainers based either at the Fair Hills Training Center or locally have been winning consistently during the past month in flat races ranging from New York to New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky.

Keri Brion (Photo from NYRA)Keri Brion has had six winners, Graham Motion has had five winners, including a stakes win, Michael Matz has had two wins and Kathy Neilson and Liz Merryman have had one each.

Two of these trainers, Brion and Neilson, are better known as steeplechase trainers.

Brion saddled winners for five different owners, beginning with two wins for Michael Foster, whose Nogradi won a $83,000, 1 mile Starter Allowance at Churchill Downs by 1/2 length on June 8, and then his Planet Clare won a $28,000,1 1/16 mile Starter Optional Claiming race at Delaware Park by 5 3/4 lengths on June 17.

Christmas Jones won a $32,040, 1mile turf Maiden Claiming at Laurel by 6 1/2 lengths on June 8 for Byrdnest Racing, Dark Horse Racing, Victory Circle Racing and Scott Gibson.

KMSN Stable's Fly Now won a $20,000, 1 1/16 mile turf race at Delaware Park by 1 length on June 18, Norma Lewis' Lendalfoot won a $44.590, 1 1/16 mile turf race at Laurel by 2 3/4 lengths on June 21,and Greentree Stables' Free Refills won a $48,000, 1 1/16 mile turf race at Belmont at the Big A by 2 1/2 lengths on June 28.

 

MOTION had three winners on June 13, beginning with the G3, $150,000, 1 1/16 mile Turf Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Graham Motion (Photo by Coady Photography)Newstead Stable's Gimme a Nother won the Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths.

Wertheimer and Frere's Longhi won a $37,300, 1 1/16 mile turf race at Laurel by a neck, and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and MHM Stables' Enjoying won a $23,575, 1 mile Maiden Claiming race at Monmouth by 1 1/4 lengths.

Hollywood Racng's isivunguvungu won a $57,000, 5 1/2 furlong turf race at Laurel by 1/2 length on June 19, and Alex G.Campbell's homebred Brat Pack won a $46,000, 1 mile turf race at Delaware Park by 1 length on June 24.

Merryman saddled her homebred Witty, owned by Merryman and Marc Detampel, to win the $100,000, 6 furlong turf Ben's Cat Stakes at Laurel by 1/2 length on June 20.

Merryman also saddled Hastings Farm's Irish Coco to win a $25,000, 1 mile Starter Optional Claiming race by 3 lengths on June 25.

Matz had two winners at Delaware Park on June 25, both for Michael Moran.

Cosie Rosie won a $45,000, 71/2 furlong turf race by 2 lengths, and Moran's homebred Cocoa Mills won a $24.600, 1 mile turf race by a nose.

Neilson saddled Orator, owned by Hard Game and Danielle B. and Charles C. Fenwick, Jr. to win a $40,925, 1 1/16 mile turf Maiden Claiming race at Laurel on June 26.