Josie Carroll added another chapter to her outstanding training career when she recorded her 1,000th victory Aug. 11 at Woodbine.
The conditioner earned her milestone triumph with LNJ Foxwoods’ Spinzar in the fourth race, an allowance optional claiming event.
In 2006, Carroll became the first female trainer to win The Queen’s Plate with Edenwold. She added a second win in the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown with the filly Inglorious in 2011.
In 2020, she won the Plate with eventual Horse of the Year Mighty Heart , who added a victory in the Prince of Wales Stakes 17 days later at Fort Erie and eventually became a two-time Canadian Horse of the Year.
The Ontario-born Carroll started her career under Canadian Hall of Fame trainer Mac Benson at the storied Windfields Farm. She began training on her own in 1994, picking up her first victory with Lilac Charm in a maiden special weight Sept. 21 of that year.
Other notable horses trained by Caroll include grade 1 winners Careless Jewel and Lukes Alley, and graded stakes winners Avie’s Flatter, Ami’s Holiday, Amis Gizmo, Leigh Court, Serenading, and Springside.
Carroll has recorded 176 career stakes wins, 59 of them graded, and nearly $59 million in purse earnings.
She was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2019.
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