Longtime owner Larry Foggle dies at 80

Trainer Tim Hills said his longtime client Larry Foggle died earlier this week at the age of 80 following a long illness.

“I trained for Larry since Rockingham Park reopened in 1985,” Hills recalled. “He claimed a lot of hard-knocking mares from up there over the years and bred them to Concorde’s Tune and got nothing but runners, mostly speed horses like the stakes winner Melody of Colors. We were together until 2017. He loved coming to the races, he loved his horses, and he really loved the game.”

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Hills usually returns to Monmouth Park at this time of year, but said he’s going to stick around the area for a while until he sees how things pan out up north.

“I have half a dozen New York-breds who really need to get up there, but there’s no sense going until we know for sure when both Belmont and Monmouth will reopen,” said Hills, who has 19 horses stabled at Gulfstream Park West and another half-dozen waiting to come in off the farm. “Thank God we can still keep running here and keep the payroll going. But if they should keep giving Monmouth a hard time, at some point you just reach a point of no return when it doesn’t even pay to go up.”