EAST BOSTON, Mass. – When the e-mail from internationally prominent owner and breeder Charles Fipke arrived, Kevin McCarthy thought perhaps he may have, too. “It was addressed to Roger Attfield, Neil Drysdale, Dallas Stewart, and me. I thought, ‘Wow. This is incredible,’ and I felt very proud to be included in their company,” said McCarthy, the recent recipient of a special achievement award from the New England Turf Writers Association for being a trainer on the rise. McCarthy, who had a 100 percent in-the-money rate and a 42 percent win rate, with 10 victories, eight seconds, and six thirds from 24 starts at Suffolk Downs through Wednesday, has only had his trainer’s license since 2012, and his 22 career victories don’t include a stakes win. His résumé obviously can’t begin to compare with those of Racing Hall of Fame members Attfield and Drysdale and the multiple Grade 1-winning Stewart, but Fipke is impressed. “He sent me a nice 2-year-old filly that he bred,” McCarthy said of the unraced daughter of Tale of Ekati out of a Danzig mare, who is among the seven allowance and claiming horses in his barn. “The connection came through Perfect Joiski, who Mr. Fipke bred.” Perfect Joiski ended up with McCarthy’s Jimikevin stable, named for McCarthy and his two sons, Jim and Mike, at Suffolk Downs in 2012, when he was 4 and had won just once in 16 starts. “He was the first horse I saddled, and he won for me coming off a long layoff, and won three of four races [that summer],” said McCarthy, a former mortgage-company sales manager. By the meet’s end, Perfect Joiski would be voted the region’s champion turf male, an honor bestowed upon him again in 2013. McCarthy also turned around Blessed Time, who was given away to him and wound up as New England’s champion 2-year-old filly last year. “It makes it even nicer that I got her free,” McCarthy said of the filly, who has come back this year to win 3 of 7 starts. “This is only my third year, and I have trained three champions. I put a lot of time and effort into each one of my horses. I really take pride in reversing a horse’s form. I love the horses and being around them.” McCarthy’s new profession allows more quality time with his family. “Mike works with me in the barn, and Jim, who is 20, was diagnosed with leukemia,” he said. “Training affords me more time with Jim, who is doing well in his battle against the disease.” Doublicious stretches out Doublicious tries for her second straight stakes win and her third in four starts when the 4-year-old takes on five other Massachusetts-bred fillies and mares in the $25,000 First Episode at a mile and 70 yards here Saturday. Although the Rum Runner Thoroughbred Racing color-bearer will attempt to travel farther than six furlongs for the first time under regular rider David Amiss, she had plenty left in her last start when cruising to a front-running, eight-length victory in the Isadorable Stakes against statebreds July 12 for trainer Alison Hassig. Doublicious, who earned a career-best 73 Beyer Speed Figure in the Isadorable, won the $30,000 Louise Kimball Stakes by three lengths in her only 2013 effort.