Tracking Success: Don MacRae
540 career wins
10 stakes victories
Top horses include Acting Naughty, Bent Attorney, Civil Code, Avoman and Puntrooskie
Has posted 12 20-plus win seasons
On his 2021 season…
“I think it was a pretty solid year all-around for us. Like any operation, you have your ups and downs, and you wish for things to be a little bit better. Avoman, I thought he had a fairly decent campaign, winning the Plate Trial and giving us our first opportunity to run in the Queen’s Plate. He didn’t hit the board, but he didn’t get beat that far either. It gave my wife and I a chance to cheer, watching him run, and it also gave our owners the experience of being in the race. He’ll now be an open claimer and he’ll show us where he belongs. One of the other highlights would be a horse we claimed down at Gulfstream, Juan Pablo. He was a cheaper horse that we claimed, and he really came along as the year went on. He was lucky enough to win a race at the end of the meet. He’ll end up being a mid-level claimer. My wife owns him. He’s the kind of horse that whenever you lead him over, he always picks up a piece of the pie. Those horses, they find their level after a few starts. But it was a typical year. Some get hurt that you had hopes for and others step up and do well.”
