UofL Equine Graduate Schultz Wins First Race as Trainer

Former assistants to Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey are starting to make a habit out of notching their first wins at Oaklawn Park. First, McGaughey's son, Reeve, did so in March 2020, and Jan. 8 at Oaklawn, Lindsay Schultz followed suit.

A product of the University of Louisville's Equine Industry Program, Schultz picked up her first victory with her 10th career starter when Ten Strike Racing's Capture The Glory  won a $10,000 claimer at the Arkansas track in race 2. The 8-year-old Scat Daddy  gelding, who Schultz claimed for the same price at Keeneland in October, led throughout under Francisco Arrieta and won by 3 1/4 lengths.

After graduating from Louisville in 2010, Schultz traveled the equine world through a two-year internship in Darley's Flying Start management training program, cut her teeth as a longtime assistant under Breeders' Cup-winning trainer Tom Proctor and managed famed Glen Hill Farm in Florida before going to work for McGaughey in the fall of 2020.

Schultz decided earlier this year to go out on her own and landed at Oaklawn, where she has a small string of horses, led by a group owned by Ten Strike Racing, which is headed by founding partners Marshall Gramm and Arkansas native Clay Sanders. Gramm and Sanders helped give bloodstock agent Liz Crow her start in the industry, and are now giving support to Schultz, a close friend of Crow's. Crow is racing manager for Ten Strike Racing, and Schultz was maid of honor in her wedding and is godmother to Crow's young daughter, Ella.

"Marshall gave her the chance when she went out on her own, to help them," Schultz told Oaklawn Park publicity last month. "Marshall always said, 'Let me know when you're thinking about going out on your own.' He actually called me this summer and said, 'Well, are you going to do it? Are you not going to do it? What's going on?' I said, 'If you can help me, let's do it.'"

Asked her biggest takeaway learning the ropes under accomplished trainers like John Shirreffs during the Flying Start program, then Proctor and, ultimately, McGaughey, Schultz told Oaklawn: "Keeping it simple." 

"And trust your instincts," Schultz added. "Tom would always say that to me."

Schultz, who also walked hots for Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito at Saratoga Race Course while in college, is among five Oaklawn-based trainers with horses on the grounds for Ten Strike. The others are 2020 Eclipse Award winner Brad Cox, Jason Barkley, Bentley Combs, and Randy Matthews

Now, like them, she is among the ranks of winning trainers, much to the delight of her supporters.

Crow tweeted that the team from ELiTE Sales, which she heads with Bradley Weisbord, "cheered like our life depended on this win! Congrats to (Lindsey), fantastic win with her very first horse claimed!"

"Awesome to be a part of (Lindsey's) first career win with Capture the Glory and even better to have it come 

at (Oaklawn)," Ten Strike Racing also tweeted. "Congratulations on the first of many wins, Lindsay!"

Awesome to be a part of @LSchultz626’s first career win with Capture the Glory and even better to have it come @OaklawnRacing!

Congratulations on the first of many wins, Lindsay! https://t.co/Tx2aGZfUXA

— Ten Strike Racing (@Tenstrikeracing) January 8, 2022