John Greathouse

Today we reach quite a crossroads in the market, between $20,000 and $29,999. It takes a degree of affluence to roll the dice at this level, but you'd do so hoping to reach blood of genuine elite potential. As usual, we've sieved out the new sires, having given them a separate treatment at the outset. Instructively, however, it's a tier dominated by stallions still in the early stages of their careers. And there is an auspicious flux here. One or two, if building on a promising start on the track,...

A Monday morning at Glencrest Farm, early in the spring of 1973, and here comes this teenage kid to see what it might be like to work with horses. The dairy where Gene Guy had been employed was closing down, but its owner W.W. Greathouse also had some Thoroughbreds on a place out near Midway and his son had said why not come out and give that a try. Guy lasted until lunchtime. It sounds as though John W. Greathouse, Sr. had maybe tested him out a little. "He told...

A Christmas Eve fire completely destroyed a barn at Fair Hill Training Center. The barn houses an outpatient veterinary clinic operated by Dr. Kathleen Anderson and is used part of the year by trainer Michael Matz, but was empty at the time of the fire. "We appear to have lost everything, but fortunately no horses or people were involved," Anderson told Paulick Report. "There was a lot of diagnostic equipment: X-rays, ultrasound, the pharmacy, plus medical records." Also suffering a barn fire over the holiday weekend was Glencrest Farm. The...