Eoin Harty

Born: November 23, 1962 | Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland | Residence: Arcadia, CA

Started Training: 2000, West Coast | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, southern California, Gulfstream Park

With 33 graded-stakes winners to his credit, including Grade I scores in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Santa Anita Derby and Travers, Harty has forged a tremendous record of success since moving to the United States at age 17 following one year at the Irish National Stud. His most recent Grade I triumph came in 2020 with Fair Maiden in the La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita. Harty spent 14 years as an assistant trainer in southern California, first with John Russell and then with Bob Baffert. Harty was part of the Baffert team when Silver Charm and Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1997 and 1998. Once on his own, Harty burst onto the national scene in 2001, sending out Tempera to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies as well as saddling the runner-up, Imperial Gesture. Tempera received an Eclipse Award as Champion 2-Year-Old-Filly. Harty earned the richest victory of his career in 2009 when Well Armed won the $6-million Dubai World Cup by a record 14 lengths. That followed an outstanding 2008 campaign in which the trainer won seven graded stakes, including the Goodwood with Well Armed and the Santa Anita Derby and Travers with Colonel John. Harty’s great-grandfather began his racing career in Ireland in 1880, working as both a jockey and a trainer. Eoin’s grandfather Cyril trained Knight’s Crest, winner of the 1944 Irish Grand National. His father, Eddie, was an accomplished equestrian who competed in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and later won the Grand National Steeplechase as a jockey.