Trainer Grant Forester

Born: 05/18/74  Resides: Louisville, Kentucky  Family, Unmarried

When Grant Forster returned to Oaklawn this year, he was accompanied by his father, David. The latter trainer is a member of the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame.

Grant has 15 horses on the grounds. His father brought five.

Last year at Oaklawn Grant saddled 14 starters. In a remarkable show of consistency, his stable accounted forsix victories, four seconds anda third.

Someone once figured it up that David had developed 53 stakes winners that accounted for 153 states victories.

Forster, 33, grew up in Langley, British Columbia and once worked in the media relations department at Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA.He is a graduate of the school of race track management at the University of Arizona. Interestingly, the Arizona school is headed by Douglas Reed, one-time racing secretary at Oaklawn Park.

“I may be the only trainer who has a circuit of Oaklawn, Churchill Downs and Emerald Downs,” mentioned Forester

Grant remembers sending out Regula for the 2005 Fantasy Stakes, where she finished second to the talented Round Pond. She has since been retired as a broodmare prospect.