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RECENT TRACK STANDINGS

Turfway Park - 7 starts - 1 win - 2 place - 2 show - 71.4% in the money

Ellis Park - 13 starts - 5 win - 2 place - 3 show - 77% in the money

Hoosier Park - 3 starts - 1 win - 0 - place - 1 show - 66% in the money

Going for wins after months of sad losses

Glyshaw copes with friends' deaths

By Jennie Rees jrees@courier-journal.comThe Courier-Journal • September 17, 2008

Trainer Tim Glyshaw met exercise rider Otto Aguilar after he worked Grand Traverse at Trackside last week. Grand Traverse recently won Ellis Park's Luke Kruytbosch Memorial, named for the late race announcer and Glyshaw's friend. By Michael Clevenger, The C-J

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Tim Glyshaw has had the best summer of his young training career, including winning five races at Ellis Park and four at Churchill Downs. But it also came amid heart-tugging events.

Much of Glyshaw's small stable came through his connection to Cliff Guilliams, the longtime race chart-caller and turf writer who died in April at age 52. "I just wish he could have been here this summer," Glyshaw said recently at his Trackside stable.

Both Evansville boys, Guilliams became Glyshaw's chief cheerleader, even before Glyshaw opened his own stable four years ago. Whenever Glyshaw was down on horses, Guilliams always seemed to steer some his way.

Through Guilliams, Glyshaw became a friend of Luke Kruytbosch, the Churchill and Ellis announcer who died at 47 the night after Ellis' third day of racing.

It was especially meaningful when Glyshaw-trained Grand Traverse captured Ellis' closing-day Luke Kruytbosch Memorial, an overnight handicap, to give the 5-year-old gelding his fourth straight victory.

Also this summer, their exercise rider and friend, Hoagy Brown, died of a brain aneurysm.

"We have a lot of angels watching us," said Glyshaw's wife, Natalie, who assists in her husband's barn and also is a track photographer for Reed Palmer Photography.

Tim Glyshaw, who grew up going to Ellis Park with his dad, graduated from Indiana University in 1992 and spent two years teaching before pursuing a career in racing.

He started out in Taylor Made Farm's internship program. That led to a job as a hotwalker for trainer Bob Holthus, and he moved up the ranks to be a groom and assistant trainer for Holthus. When Glyshaw started his own stable at Ellis Park, Holthus sent him his overflow 2-year-olds. As such, Glyshaw gave future champion Lawyer Ron his early training.

"He's a very nice young man," Holthus said. "He's a schoolteacher, so they seem to learn a little faster. He was a very loyal employee, and I still support him when I can. Loyalty is hard to find anymore in this business."

Glyshaw, 39, steadily has been building his stable the hard way, an owner and a horse or two at a time.

"When we had five horses, I owned four of them," he said. "All we could afford to claim were $5,000, $7,500 horses, the ones who need the most vet work. We bought one for $1,000 from a hay and feed guy. It finished second three times in a row, then won, then we gave him to the adoption place. It's definitely a work-your-way-up kind of thing."

Glyshaw, who has eight horses at Trackside and will have another five once Fair Grounds' winter meet begins in New Orleans, hopes the momentum from the summer carries over. He has won 18 of 76 starts this season (23.7 percent).

Grand Traverse is the kind of horse who can get Glyshaw the attention of owners looking for a trainer. The gelding had been off a year when Glyshaw got him. He worked his way down to a cheap claiming race, but that started his winning streak, including going 3 for 3 at Ellis, capped by the Kruytbosch Memorial.

Loren Hebel-Osborne is part-owner and breeder of Grand Traverse, nicknamed Woody. She said she's never had a trainer with better communication skills.

"He's absolutely hands-on, he and Natalie both," she said. "They're at the barn every day, putting the hands on their horses. He kisses them on the nose and gives them all the candy and baby-talks to them. … Woody has never been happier. I don't think there's any other magic pill that (Glyshaw has) given him other than TLC."

The Kruytbosch victory was especially poignant.

"Cliff's not gone," Hebel-Osborne said. "He's still up there, got his finger in the soup. That's, quite frankly, one of the reasons why we went back to the Luke Kruytbosch. For Luke and that association with Cliff, but also because Ellis was Cliff's track. … I think in the back of all our minds we said, 'We're going to get Cliff to sort of blow us across the finish line a little bit.' "

Jennie Rees can be reached at (502) 582-4042.

DAILY RACING FORM 9-5-08 by: Marty McGee

Grand Traverse enjoys perfect meet

No horse had a better Ellis meet than Grand Traverse, a resurgent 5-year-old gelding who ended the Churchill Downs spring meet by winning a nonwinners-of-two-lifetime race for a $10,000 claiming tag. At Ellis, Grand Traverse went 3 for 3, winning another conditioned claimer, a first-level allowance, and finally an overnight handicap named in honor of the late race-caller Luke Kruytbosch on Monday, closing day.

Grand Traverse, trained by Tim Glyshaw, earned a career-high 96 Beyer Speed Figure in the Kruytbosch.

"We're absolutely ecstatic with the progress he's made," said Loren Hebel-Osborne, a principal in the Mimicry Partnership that owns Grand Traverse.

Leading Horses at Ellis Park

Starting Date: 07/04/2008
Ending Date: 09/01/2008

Name Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings

Grand Traverse 3 3 0 0 $39,650

This Smoke Did It 3 3 0 0 $25,864

Fidgity Felon 3 3 0 0 $18,600

Hound Tor 6 2 4 0 $15,480

Wave Land Groovy 4 2 2 0 $16,860

Thunder Boot 4 2 2 0 $13,300

Full Exertion 4 2 1 0 $16,680

Native Tell 3 2 1 0 $12,940

Fasterthanfast 3 2 1 0 $12,900

Master Charger 5 2 1 0 $12,825

Stormy Rain 3 2 1 0 $11,860

Emotional Release 3 2 1 0 $11,060

Tampa's Big City 3 2 0 1 $10,640

Partners Star 2 2 0 0 $44,000

Colonel Rutledge 2 2 0 0 $43,075

Gin and Sin 2 2 0 0 $38,400

Asset Class 2 2 0 0 $27,075

Hungry Tigress 2 2 0 0 $27,075

Cape Cod Girl 2 2 0 0 $22,970

Amy's Buddha 3 2 0 0 $19,390

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