Patrick B. Byrne (born March 8, 1956, in

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) is an American

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racehorse Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic pr ...

trainer who has won three

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races and who in 1997 conditioned

Favorite Trick Favorite Trick (April 20, 1995 – June 6, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1997 became the first 2-year-old in twenty-five years to be voted United States Horse of the Year. Bred at Wintergreen Farm in Midway, Kentucky by Ma ...

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and

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honors and Countess Diana to

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honors. A native of

, Byrne was from a family involved in horse racing. He rode horses in

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before emigrating to the United States in 1978 where he worked in

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as an exercise rider. He then spent eight years learning the training business from trainers such as

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, John Russell, Howard Tesher and David Whitely before taking out his trainers license in 1986. In 1998, Patrick Byrne trained

Awesome Again Awesome Again (March 29, 1994December 15, 2020) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion. As a three-year-old, he won the Queen's Plate in Canada and the Jim Dandy Stakes in the United States. He was undefeated at age four, scoring his ...

to an undefeated year that was capped off with a win in the

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. Byrne makes his home in

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, where he settled in 1990, competing from a base at

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.Louisville Magazine, April 2006
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