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TONY ALAGNA WIKIPEDIA

Tony Alagna

Born June 8, 1972 (age 52)

Champaign, Illinois

Nationality: USA

American

Occupation: Harness trainer

Home tracks: USA: Meadowlands, The Red Mile

           Tony Alagna is a famous trainer of standardbred horses and is ranked 5^th in all time earnings. His pacers and trotters have won many famous stakes and championship races. He started his own public stable in 2009 at the age of 37 and has established himself as one of harness racing’s top trainers. In 2013 he had 151 wins and 5.44 million in purses. In 2019, he was ranked third in North America. His stable has amassed $75.77 million in purses as of August, 2024.[i]

           Alagna trained the famous champion pacer Captaintreacherous, who was named Pacer of the Year in 2012 and 2013.[ii] Captaintreacherous became the first pacer to receive the award two years in a row since Jenna’s Beach Boy in 1995-1996[iii], and joined Niatross as the only horses to receive the award at ages 2 and 3 since the award was first given in 1970[iv]. Pacer Bret Hanover won the American Harness Horse of the Year award at ages 2, 3, and 4.[v]

           In 2020, Alagna won in the Hambletonian with Ramona Hill, ridden by Andrew McCarthy. The winning time was 1:50.1, matching the stakes record.[vi] Other top horses for Alagna are My MVP, who won the 2012 Kentucky Futurity, as well as stakes-winners Authorize, Fresh Idea, Handover Belle, Ideal Magic, Major Bombay, Mel Mara, Nikki Beach, and Rockaround Sue. Tony Alagna also had nine wins on the racing card in one day with his 2 year olds on July 7, 2023 at the Meadowlands.[vii] He had his 2,000^th training win on June 18, 2023.[viii]

Tony Alagna is the son of trotting trainer Donna Lee Ozment.[ix] He began riding horses at three years old and studying pedigrees and bloodlines before he was a teenager. After he graduated from high school, Alagna helped his mother in her stable. After he outgrew his little Welsh Pony, his mother got him a quarter horse, and then Saddlebreds and Morgans. He won a world championship in 2016 with one named Miss Velvet Brown. His mother was previously one of the top trainers of the tough Chicago harness circuit and she works with her son now.[x]

Tony Alagna first worked for trainer Brian Pinske before finishing his college degree in 1997. After graduating college, he worked as a private trainer for Pat and Ken Walk’s Fox Valley Standardbreds in Illinois and then spent six years as the top assistant to trainer Erv Miller. With Erv Miller, he helped train horses such as Lis Mara, Shark Gesture, Classic Photo and Muscle Mass.[xi]

           He now has a 148 acre farm with 145 stalls, an equine swimming pool and a seven-eighths mile oval in Howell, New Jersey. “I definitely get my work ethic from my mom.” Alagna said. “She instilled in me that if you don’t work hard, you’re not going to be successful. Mom always told me that if you don’t take care of the horse, the horse won’t take care of you.”[xii]

These are some of the famous races won by horses trained by Tony Alagna:

Year	Race	Horse	Driver
2012	Metro Pace	Captaintreacherous	Tim Tetrick
2013	North America Cup	Captaintreacherous	Tim Tetrick
2013	Meadowlands Pace	Captaintreacherous	Tim Tetrick
2013	Cane Pace	Captaintreacherous	Tim Tetrick
2013	Breeders Crown 3 YO Colt & Gelding Pace	Captaintreacherous	Tim Tetrick
2014	Metro Pace	Artspeak	Scott Zeron
2015	Messenger Stakes	Revenge Shark	Yannick Gingras
2016	Adios Pace	Racing Hill	Brett Miller
2016	Messenger Stakes	Racing Hill	Brett Miller
2016	Breeders Crown 3 YO Colt & Gelding Pace	Racing Hill	Brett Miller
2017	Breeders Crown 2 YO Colt & Gelding Pace	Stay Hungry	Doug McNair
2018	Cane Pace	Stay Hungry	Doug McNair
2018	Messenger Stakes	Stay Hungry	Doug McNair
2019	Breeders Crown 2 YO Filly Trot	Ramona Hill	Andrew McCarthy
2019	Breeders Crown 2 YO Filly Pace	Reflect With Me	Andrew McCarthy
2019	Breeders Crown Open Pace	American History	Joe Bongiorno
2020	Hambletonian Stakes	Ramona Hill	Andrew McCarthy
2020	Little Brown Jug	Captain Barbossa	Joe Bongiorno
2021	Cane Pace	Rockyroad Hanover	Dexter Dunn
2023	Kentucky Sire States	Better is Nice	Andrew McCarthy
2023	New Jersey Sire States	Better is Nice	Andrew McCarthy
2024	Kentucky Sire States	Better is Nice	Andrew McCarthy
2024	Metro Pace	Fallout	Tim Tetrick

REFERENCES

i.                    (http://www.alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html) ALAGNA RACING. http://www. Alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html. August 9, 2020. (Mom behind the Alagna Empire, 6             August 2022; Kimberly Reinker, The Hambletonian Society)

ii.                 Harnessmuseum.com/content/captaintreacherous; (http://alagnaracing.com/tony-bio)

iii.               Standardbredcanada.ca/news/12-4-15/jennas-beach-boy-passes.html.

iv.                (http://alagnaracing.com/tony-bio)

v.                  (Brittanica.com/topic/Bret-Hanover)

vi.                (Hambletonian.com/hambletonianhistory/2020); “Ramona Hill equals stakes record in Hambletonian” (http://ustrottingnews.com/ramona-hill-equals-stakes-stakes-record-in-hambletonian/). August 8, 2020.

vii.               UStrottingnews.com/nine-wins-is-fine-for-alagna

viii.                       Harnesslink.com/usa/tony-alagna-surpasses-2000^th-training-win/

ix.               Harnesslink.com/usa/mom-behind-the-alagna-empire/

x.                 Harnesslink.com/usa/mom-behind-the-alagna-empire/

xi.               Ustrottingnews.com/passion-for-horses-runs-in-tony-alagnas-family/

xii.              Alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html/