At The Post Live Week 3

This week joining At The Post Live with Andy Serling from The Parting Glass Pub in Saratoga was a trio of trainers.  Mike Hushion, Jimmy Jerkens, and Leah Gyarmati explain how the late great Allen Jerkens impacted their lives as well as the racing community.  Allen Jerkens was one of the finest trainers horse racing has ever seen.  Winning over 200 stakes races, Jerkens may be most notable for being able to defeat Secretariat twice with two different horses (Onion in the 1973 Whitney Handicap, and Prove Out in the 1973 Woodward Stakes.

The youngest trainer ever to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame at the age of 45, Jerkens also won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in 1973.

Jerkens passed away on March 18th, 2015, but passed along much of his knowledge of racing to a variety of people involved in horse racing, including his sons Jimmy and Steven.