Shug McGaughey
Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred Horse Trainer
Episode 263. Shug McGaughey – Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred Horse Trainer
Shug McGaughey began working as a trainer in 1979 and to date has won more than 240 graded stakes races. In 1986, he got his big break when Ogden Phipps hired him to train his stable of horses. In 1988, he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in the United States. Among his many wins, Shug has captured the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Travers Stakes three times each and won the 1989 Belmont Stakes with Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer as well as the 2013 Kentucky Derby with Orb. Shug’s nine Breeders’ Cup victories rank second to D. Wayne Lukas. Among the other horses, he has trained are back-to-back Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Lure and Hall of Famer Personal Ensign. He has accomplished the rare trifecta of training a Breeders’ Cup winner, her daughter, and her granddaughter in the troika of Personal Ensign, My Flag, and Storm Flag Flying. In 2013 he won his first Kentucky Derby with Orb.
In 2004, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. At his induction ceremony, he said: “My deepest debt of gratitude always has been and always will be to the Phipps family” and “My affiliation with the Phipps family is one of the great highlights of my life. I wouldn’t be here without them.”
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