Peter Eurton was born and raised in Southern California, began training there in 1989, has always based the bulk of his stable there, and remains committed to racing there, wobbly as things have become there. “I want to keep it going,” Eurton said Thursday, reached by phone in – California. “I don’t want to see it go.” Nonetheless, Eurton, 69, has spread his wings. During the fall of 2024, he set up a string in Kentucky, a string that in April will have expanded to about 35 horses. The last two winters, Eurton had his non-California horses stabled at The Thoroughbred Center on the northeast side of Lexington, shipping from there to race at Turfway. He didn’t love the dynamic. Fifteen horses still reside at the training center this winter, while Eurton, who has 35 horses at Santa Anita, is running a 20-horse string at Fair Grounds, his first season stabled at the track. “It’s a nice place to train. I love the surface, love the turf,” Eurton said. Through the considerable changes, Eurton’s operation has prospered. In 2025, his 36th year training, Eurton set career bests in wins, with 59, and stable earnings, just short of $4 million. Last weekend, Eurton won the Marie Krantz Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds with Medoro, and three weekends hence, Eurton plans to start the talented 3-year-old filly Majestical in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, a stepping-stone toward the Kentucky Oaks. :: Big Action in the Big Easy at Fair Grounds! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Majestical, a Good Magic filly who campaigns for the C R K Stable of Lee and Susan Searing, went into training at The Thoroughbred Center and had never left Kentucky before shipping to Fair Grounds in early December. She debuted Nov. 29 at Churchill, rallying from 10th to just miss in a seven-furlong maiden race, and scored a good-looking dirt-route maiden win Dec. 27 at Fair Grounds. The Silverbulletday Stakes on Jan. 17 came up too quick, and Eurton likes the timing into the Feb. 14 Rachel Alexandra. “Space between races always seems to be your friend,” Eurton said. “This filly has the frame and the mindset to be anything. She’s tough, she’s aggressive, she loves to train – a big, long-striding filly.” Medoro won the Krantz, a 1 1/16-mile grass race, by 1 3/4 lengths as the 11-10 favorite, earning career-best 97 Beyer in her first race outside California, and she’s not going back anytime soon. Eurton said Medoro’s next start comes March 21 in the $150,000 Tom Benson Memorial at Fair Grounds, after which she goes north with the Louisiana string to Kentucky. “We’re going to space her races pretty good, but our hopes are to take her into the spring and have her take on some of the better fillies at in Kentucky,” said Eurton. Medoro, a 5-year-old by Honor Code, has only raced on grass courses but trains so well on the main track, Eurton said, that connections at some point might experiment with dirt racing. Eurton, you can see, does not fear trying something new. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.