The Canadian Sportsman
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Back To In QuotesMay 20, 2010
“He and his girlfriend were both looking for work. I had heard and seen that she was good and I always thought Andrew was useless. I didn’t think he was any good at all... I didn’t want him, but they were a package deal. I gave him the biggest s--- I had. I gave him the s-----est horses. I really thought he was going to be no good at all. He was working six, seven months, and it was time to open the Jersey stable. All my assistant trainers all have kids, a wife, family, one thing or another. Nobody really wanted to go. I thought, ‘I want to do this, but I need somebody to run it.’ Well, Andrew came up to me and he said, ‘Casie, if I had the opportunity, I’d like to do it. He had been working well. I said, ‘You, run a stable? What the hell? You’re grooming for me. You’re not even training.’ He said, ‘I’d love to. I’d love to.’ Anyways, I kind of had no choice. So, I sent him down and I came down four days later. He had the trailer packed with everything to set the stalls up with. We were going to claim horses that week. I thought the barn was just going to be a disaster. We had a lot of work to do. I got there three or four days after he got there, the whole barn is set up and is spic and span. It looked like I had been there for a year. I couldn’t believe it. He must have not slept. How he did it I have no idea. He ended up being awesome. He’s one of the top guys I’ve ever had. I hope he never leaves me, because he’s very good and he says he’s not going to, but once he ever does, he’ll be fine on his own. He’ll have no problem running his own stable.”
— Casie Coleman (above) on assistant trainer Andrew Harris, who runs the New Jersey branch of her barn from Showplace Farms
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