Michael W. McCarthy (born February 1, 1971, in
Youngstown, Ohio) is an American trainer of
Thoroughbred racehorses best known for winning the 2018
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it is part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the ''de facto'' year-end championship for North American t ...
with
City of Light and the 2021
Preakness Stakes with
Rombauer.
California based, McCarthy worked for trainers Doug Peterson and Ben Cecil as well as
Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher with whom he spent eleven years before going out on his own in 2014.
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References
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1971 births
Living people
American horse trainers
Sportspeople from Youngstown, Ohio