Brisset ends stint as WinStar training center supervisor

Rodolphe Brisset's stint as in-house trainer for WinStar Farm has come to an end after five months, a move he described as "a small change."

"We're still training for WinStar, we just decided on training from the farm and running off the farm," Brisset told Horse Racing Nation Monday. "We just go back to a hundred percent public, so we can take clients from everywhere. And I'm lucky enough where the majority of my clients followed me anyway when when we were semi-private for WinStar. And so it doesn't make a huge change. And we've got to get back to work and try to win races."

Daily Racing Form reported that WinStar's training center now will be overseen by Neal McLaughlin and Terry Arnold. Elliott Walden, WinStar president and CEO, told DRF that the change "is just a tweak."

Brisset's move to the training center was announced in July, and the France native planned to keep about 20 horses for private clients in addition to those he trained for WinStar.

One change for Brisset as a result of the brief WinStar role is that “we will have lost maybe 20 stalls in Turfway,” he said. “We run at Turfway, but we’ve just got to stay at Keeneland. That’s home for us, Keeneland, so that doesn’t make a big difference.”

Brisset also provided an update on his two graded-stakes winners this year. We the People won the Peter Pan (G3) and compiled a 7: 3-1-0 record. Yuugiri won the Fantasy (G1) and then was 13th in the Kentucky Oaks, her most recent start.

“We the People, he’s at the WinStar farm,” Brisset said. “He's having a break, and he should be back here jogging pretty soon. And then Yuugiri, actually I just worked her this morning in Oaklawn. She had her last work, and she's planning on running on Sunday at Oaklawn.”