Ballad of Bertie - Stakes Win at Mountaineer Park, June 19, 2007. Ballad of Bertie was purchased privately for $50,000, and a partnership was formed with some long time owners of GRS, Inc. Her owners won $100,000 in purses before selling her at the Keeneland Sale in January 2008 for $130,000. Ballad of Bertie - Stakes Win at Mountaineer Park, June 2007
T.K.s Turn
T.K.'s Turn has been part of our stable since 2002. He is 10 years old and loves the racetrack. On June 19, 2008 he had his 100th career start and his 22nd WIN !
Wirebender daylights a tough field at Keeneland and pays $42.60 to his backers, Keeneland Fall Meet, October 2005. It was his 10th career win. He continues to be Flight Forty Nine's top money earner. Wirebender - Keeneland Fall Meet, October 2005
Cold Play
Cold Play was claimed for $7500 at River Downs by owner Laurie Hickman, then promptly won her next two races, including this $25,000 claimer on the turf...
...and an allowance race on the main track. Cold Play
Silver Mark wins on the raise at Churchill
Silver Mark notches a Churchill Downs win for owner Bob Nettles, under Rafael Bejarano. Claimed for $7500 at Turfway, "The Streak" won for $20,000 at Churchill!
Snappy Little Cat, the first foal out of the multiple Stakes winning mare Snappy Little Tune. This 2001 filly is by the Storm Cat stallion Tactical Cat.

Snappy Little Cat won the Bassinet Stakes Prep, August 2003. She followed up with a 3rd in the 2003 Bassinet Stakes.

Cardiogenic in a perfectly timed finish photo
DOUBLE VISION ? Cardiogenic beats Jamye's Mugabucks to the wire by a nose in what has to be one of the great action shots of all time. Two grays in perfect synch.
Silver Mark winning "on the raise", first race off the claim. Silver Mark on the raise
Wirebender profitable at Mountaineer Park
Wirebender made his first trip to Mountaineer Park a profitable one for both his owners and his backers, winning a $31,000 purse and paying $21.60 to win. He later finished a close 2nd in the $40,000 Michael Rowland Memorial Handicap, and has earned over $100,000. Not bad for a horse that almost died before he ever raced.

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T.K.'s Turn got our 2004 River Downs meet off to a great start! TKs Turn, 2004
Lucky Baldwin goes wire to wire
Lucky Baldwin goes wire to wire in allowance company on Derby Day at River Downs.
El Flaco takes another win celebration to excess - more about El Flaco >> El Flaco, 2004
Jeff Works Around the Dogs
Jeff "works around the dogs"

Andy Furman, sports talk radio host of 700 WLW, interviews Jeff before the 2003 $100,000 Bassinet Stakes in which Snappy Little Cat finished 3rd. To Jeff's right is Mr. River Downs, the Regular Guy, John Englehardt.

Pictured right is Snappy Little Cat with her connections after a win in the Bassinet Stakes Prep, August 2003

"Greenhill Enjoying New Career", by Marty McGee, Daily Racing Form

Having worked for nearly 17 years as a chemical engineer, Jeff Greenhill is now having a lot more fun in his career as a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. Based at River Downs, where the richest races of the meet take place this weekend, Greenhill said he got into racing "for the fun, not to get rich or famous - although I sure wouldn't mind winning that hundred-grander on Saturday."

That Saturday race is the $100,000 Bassinet Stakes, the sister race to the River Downs showcase, the $200,000 Cradle Stakes, which will be run Monday at the Cincinnati track. Greenhill will saddle Snappy Little Cat, a gray homebred who won the Aug. 10 Bassinet prep and figures to be among the middle wagering choices in a field of 11 2-year-old fillies in the six-furlong race.

Greenhill, 47, is unlike many trainers in at least one respect: He was 40 when he got his first trainer's license, in 1996. Since then, Greenhill and his wife, Sherri - who also happens to be one of his main clients - have had many enjoyable experiences in racing, including three stakes wins in the late 1990's by Snappy Little Tune, whose first foal is Snappy Little Cat.

"I was looking to sell Snappy Little Cat at auction, but then one of my longtime owners, Stan Schofer, bought half of her for a pretty fair amount," Greenhill said. "So Sherri and I are racing her in partnership with Stan, and hopefully it'll work out the way we hope."

Greenhill has shifted his stable from the Trackside training facility in Louisville, Ky., to River, which is about 70 miles from his home in La Grange, Ky.

"The stall situation in Louisville pretty much forced me into that move," he said. "It's okay, because I really like the surface at River."

In the Bassinet, for which entries were drawn Tuesday, Snappy Little Cat, by Tactical Cat, will face several of the fillies she defeated in the prep. However, a handful of newcomers figure to make the Bassinet considerably tougher. Those new shooters include Stoneway, Mocha Queen, and In Rome, all of whom won maiden races this month at Ellis Park, and Ding's Thing, already a winner of two Ohio-bred stakes for trainer Tim Hamm.

Meanwhile, entries for the 1 1/16-mile Cradle were to be drawn Thursday. Blushing Indian, second in the Sanford at Saratoga for trainer Dale Romans, should be a solid favorite in what is shaping up as a medium-size field of 2-year-old colts and geldings.

Snappy Little Cat finished third by less than 3 lengths for the win in the 2003 $100,000 Bassinet Stakes!


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