Trainer Biancone Seeks License in Kentucky

Patrick Biancone is seeking to have his training license reinstated in Kentucky, where the multiple grade 1-winning conditioner has not saddled a horse since losing his license following a 2007 discovery of cobra venom and other substances in his Keeneland barn.

Biancone is scheduled to appear before the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission License Review Committee at 10 a.m. EDT July 19 in Lexington. According to a spokesperson for the committee, he is requesting an owner-trainer license.

In 2016 and 2017 Biancone started horses in Florida and California at Golden Gate Fields, Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park, and Gulfstream Park West. He has not started a horse in Kentucky since the fall of 2007.

From 2005 to 2007, Biancone started horses at all five Kentucky tracks, winning 89 of 412 starts for purse earnings of more than $6.45 million. His horses claimed 13 graded stakes, including a grade 1 victory by Asi Siempre in the 2006 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes at Keeneland.

Biancone's stable earnings exceeded $1 million each year 2002-2007, but the stable has not reached seven figures in purse earnings in a single season since 2010. This year his horses have won 9 of 86 starts and have earned more than $375,000.

Biancone previously applied to have his Kentucky license reinstated in September 2010, but withdrew the application after the license review committee indicated it would reject the application. At that time, in response to a question on his license application, Biancone included several fines he had incurred. But Burr Travis, the license committee chairman, noted there were several other fines imposed on Biancone that were not listed by the trainer.