Lobo reopens Southern California stable

CYPRESS, Calif. – Paulo Lobo, who trained the 2002 champion 3-year-old filly Farda Amiga, has reopened a stable in Southern California after spending the last four years in his native Brazil.

Lobo, 45, and his family arrived in late July. His small stable currently is based at Los Alamitos. Lobo said he worked as a private trainer in Brazil in recent years, an arrangement that ended this summer.

“My contract ended last month,” Lobo said. “Instead of opening a public stable in Brazil, we decided to open a stable here. I was kind of homesick.”

Lobo has a few horses already in training and is hoping to begin racing in the autumn. His stable includes Baccelo, a Group 2 winner in Brazil in 2013. Other runners are expected from South America in the coming week, as well as American runners.

Lobo began training in the U.S. in 2001. He won four Grade 1 races in the next nine years – the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes in 2002 with Farda Amiga and the Metropolitan Mile Handicap and Carter Handicap in 2004 with Pico Central. He also won the 2008 Arkansas Derby with Gayego and the Oaklawn Handicap in 2009 with Runforthedoe.

Lobo moved his stable to New York in 2009 and moved to Brazil in late 2010.