1.   And now Bill Mott is the best thoroughbred trainer in America, if not one of the best in the world.

2.   At the Los Angeles County Fair this year, nobody tempted fate like Vladimir Cerin, the thoroughbred trainer.

3.   Accusations were filed against West and six other thoroughbred trainers last September after clenbuterol was detected in urine samples from several horses.

4.   Cash Asmussen, brother of Lone Star Park leading thoroughbred trainer Steve Asmussen, said he will no longer ride in Europe.

5.   Escarcega painstakingly compiled the records of each Southern California thoroughbred trainer when they bring horses back from layoffs of a month or more.

6.   His brother, Steve, is a successful thoroughbred trainer who will have a stable at Lone Star this season.

7.   Joe DiMaggio has nothing on thoroughbred trainer Mel Stute.

8.   Nick Zito, who redefined his stature as a thoroughbred trainer with Albert the Great.

9.   Roussel, a thoroughbred trainer and attorney, never has shown a serious interest in quarter horses.

10.   Three top thoroughbred trainers -- Bob Baffert, Bobby Frankel and Nick Zito -- are fighting suspensions for bad things in the urine of their horses.