Patrick B. Byrne (born March 8, 1956, in London, England) is an American Thoroughbred

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trainer who has won three Breeders' Cup races and who in 1997 conditioned Favorite Trick to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and

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honors and

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honors. A native of London, England, Byrne was from a family involved in horse racing. He rode horses in Europe 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 LeRoy Jolley,

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and David Whitely before taking out his trainers license in 1986. In 1998, Patrick Byrne trained Awesome Again to an undefeated year that was capped off with a win in the Breeders' Cup Classic. Byrne makes his home in Louisville, Kentucky, where he settled in 1990, competing from a base at

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