He may have stepped away from training racehorses, but Sovereign Award finalist Martin Drexler’s horses are still doing good work.
The Great Oz, Ever Dangerous, Veery, Yukon Striker, Texas Holiday, Alley Oop Johnny.
Those are just some of the horses previously trained by Martin Drexler who have won at Woodbine in the early days of the 2026 spring meeting. Not all of those came directly from the hands of Drexler before their wins, but most of them did, perhaps silencing the naysayers who didn’t seem to appreciate the rate at which Drexler won races over the past couple of years. But now that these same horses are winning in the barns of trainers such as Mike Wright, Jr., Don MacRae, Katerina Vassilieva, Kevin Attard and fledgling conditioner Audrey Cheung, the chatterers don’t seem to have a case anymore. Over a half dozen of the Drexler horses from Florida have won or run very well for other trainers.
This past weekend, Wright Jr. was able to claim a horse for Drexler’s longtime owner Elliott Logan of TEC Stable, as did Jim Ensom, Drexler’s longtime assistant.
David Rowbotham and partners’ multiple stakes winner Hurricane Clair, developed by Drexler since she was a juvenile, makes her five-year-old debut in the Grade 3 Belle Mahone Stakes on May 30 for Wright Jr.
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