Greece

On Sunday July 7, a memorial service at the Belmont Chaplaincy Center will be held in honor of Toby Sheets, the former assistant to Steve Asmussen who passed away in Greece earlier this month, according to a tweet sent on X by NYRA paddock analyst Maggie Wolfendale. The memorial will take place between 5:30 p.m. ET to 9:00 p.m. ET, and a special service is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET. Wolfendale said that the event will be live streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Sheets, who was last...

Toby Sheets, the former assistant to Steve Asmussen, died from drowning, Ioannis Aivatidis, the coroner in Corfu, Greece who performed the autopsy, told ABC News on Tuesday. Sheets disappeared last Tuesday, and was found dead on the beach on the island of Mathraki, in Greece, on Sunday.  ABC said that the U.S. Embassy was working to have Sheets's body sent home to the United States. Sheets, 55, lived in Floral Park, New York, near Belmont Park. He had last been seen alive on Tuesday, June 11 at a bar on...

Toby Sheets, a longtime assistant trainer to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, was found dead Sunday on a beach on the Greek Island of Mathraki, Sheets's family has confirmed to the TDN. Sheets's death is the most recent in a series of foreign tourists to disappear or be found dead on the Greek islands in the past week, according to the Associated Press. According to Reuters, Sheets was 55 years old. The confirmation was provided by Greg Sheets, who said he was Sheets's cousin. "He did pass away in...