Aqueduct: Schosberg breaks skid with 800th win

When Iratinelexburance won Aqueduct's fourth race on March 14, it not only broke a long losing streak for trainer Rick Schosberg, but it proved to be a milestone victory as well.

Iratinelexburance gave Schosberg the 800th win of his training career while ending an 0-for-42 skid that dated back to Nov. 1.

Making the victory a little more special was that the horse was owned by his father, Paul Schosberg.

“We were just waiting for the right time,” Rick Schosberg quipped. “I wanted it to be dad’s horse. Her last three races I thought were going to be it.”

The win capped a good week for the Schosberg family, as Rick’s mother, Jane, was the breeder of the highest-priced filly sold at last week’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. auction of 2-year-olds in training, a daughter of Malibu Moon out of the stakes-winning dam Sunshine for Life.

“It was a good week: Dad won a $12,500 claimer, mom sold the sale-topper, and my wife [Dawn] won her tennis match to get into the playoffs,” Schosberg said.