Martin "Marty" D. Wolfson (born August 3, 1951) is an American
Thoroughbred
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racehorse
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trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s.
Early life
He is the son of
Louis Wolfson
Louis Elwood Wolfson (January 28, 1912 – December 30, 2007) was an American financier, a convicted felon, and one of the first modern corporate raiders, labeled by ''Time'' as such in a 1956 article.Harbor View Farm
Louis Elwood Wolfson (January 28, 1912 – December 30, 2007) was an American financier, a convicted felon, and one of the first modern corporate raiders, labeled by ''Time'' as such in a 1956 article.U.S. Triple Crown in 1978 with two-time
American Horse of the Year
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,
Affirmed
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. He spent a large part of his childhood on the family horse farm near Ocala in Marion County, Florida. He is the youngest of four siblings.
Early career
Wolfson received his horse-training license when he was 18 years old, and began training with a few of his father's horses at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens.
Based at
Calder Race Course
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in
Miami Gardens, Florida
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, where he is a Calder Hall of Fame inductee, Marty Wolfson has conditioned horses for his late father as well as the prominent horsepersons such as
Mike Pegram
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Miesque's Approval
Miesque's Approval (foaled March 3, 1999 in Florida) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2006 Breeders' Cup Mile and was voted that year's American Champion Male Turf Horse. He was bred and raced by Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Planta ...
captured the
Breeders' Cup Mile
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.
Wolfson earned over $53.6 million in purses during the course of his career. He realized 1,682 wins from 9,059 starts. His best year was 2009 in which he won 67 races of 275 starts, earning $4.2 million. In 2015 his career started to fail, with only 29 of 197 starts winners, and 2016 was even worse, only winning 13% of his starts.
Personal life
At age 21 he married his high school sweetheart, but divorced after a year and a half. He was married to Karla for 35 years, separating in 2011.
Wolfson was featured nude in the November 1978 issue of ''
Playgirl
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