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3/24/2015
A decade after Nick Zito saddled five horses for five different owners in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I), some people might think the Hall of Fame trainer has scaled back intentionally to enjoy a lighter workload.
Those people would be wrong.
"If you look at me, I guess I'm a teenager compared to (79-year-old) D. Wayne Lukas," the 67-year-old Zito said this week. "No, I don't look at it that way.
"When you're in your 60s, if you have the horses, it's a different story than other sports. In baseball, for example, you start getting older and you have to go into management. When you are in your 60s in horse racing, you can be Woody Stephens, you can be Charlie Whittingham, you can be Wayne Lukas. If I get the players, I can still coach."
The man who has won two editions of the Kentucky Derby, two editions of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I), and one running of the Preakness (gr. I) has two "players" scheduled to run in Derby prep events the next two weekends.
