After 40 years as a trainer, John Scanlan retired from the game in 2014, and his death on Jan. 8 in Philadelphia went largely unnoticed. Scanlan, who was 68, battled health issues in recent years. He won won 766 races during his career but is best remembered as the trainer of Toccet, runner-up in the Eclipse Award voting for champion 2-year-old male in 2002, and for his long association with the brash, outspoken owner Daniel Borislow. Toccet won 6 of 8 starts in 2002 for Borislow and Scanlan, including the Grade 1 Champagne, Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity, Grade 2 Remsen, and Grade 3 Laurel Futurity. He finished second in the Eclipse Awards voting to Vindication, who went a perfect 4 for 4 and won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Arlington Park. Toccet finished ninth in the BC Juvenile after breaking from the outside post in a 13-horse field. Toccet followed up the BC Juvenile with victories in the Remsen, Laurel Futurity, and Hollywood Futurity, but Vindication had already wrapped up the title. Scanlan was based at Laurel Park during Toccet’s juvenile season but spent most of his career at Philadelphia Park, which was renamed Parx in 2010. He raced throughout the Mid-Atlantic, mostly in Maryland and at the New Jersey tracks of Monmouth Park and Garden State Park. Borislow, who made a fortune in the telecommunications industry while in his early 30’s, teamed with Scanlan in 1991 and the two raced horses together until Borislow’s death from a heart attack in July 2014. In addition to Toccet, their better horses included Talk Is Money, who was eased while making his final career start in the 2001 Kentucky Derby, and the multiple stakes winners Champagne Royal and Dinner In Rio. Borislow never shied from the spotlight. He is famous for taking out a series of ads in the Daily Racing Form challenging the connections of Vindication to run against Toccet in the Hollywood Futurity while lobbying for the Eclipse Award. A huge gambler, he stunned the racing world in May 2014 by hitting the Rainbow 6 at Gulfstream Park for $6.6 million on a $22,809 wager a day before the pool was to have attracted national attention by being distributed on a mandatory payout basis. Two months later, Borislow died of a heart attack. Scanlan sent out his final starter at the Meadowlands in October of that year. Scanlan is survived by his wife of 42 years, Lynn, and his sons, John F. Jr. and Patrick. The family requests that any memorials in Scanlan’s name be made to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.