Trainer Vince White

Trainer Vince White is the founder of Sano Park Training Center.  He began in 1982 when he worked at Churchill Downs as a hot walker and groom for Diane Crump, one of the nation's first female jockeys, and for Don Divine, trainer.  Two years later, he began working as an exercise rider for Ronnie Warren and Coax Me Chad, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby.  For the next decade, White traveled the circuit - Kentucky to Florida and many places in between working as an exercise rider and in other capacities at various tracks.  In 1994, he returned to his native south-central Kentucky where he began working as an assistant trainer to Larry Holt.  In 1997, he received his trainer's license and then started Sano Park in 2000.  For the next five years, White worked hard to build Sano Park, but discovered that overseeing all the aspects of the facility was not letting him spend enough time with the horses.  In 2004, he sold the business to Troy and Donna Hancock  so that he could once again devote full-time to his first-love - training horses.   Vince races horses from Sano Park at River Downs, Turfway, Keeneland, Churchill Downs and Mountaineer Park, primarily concentrating on Turfway and River Downs, where he is eighth in the standings for their spring-summer meet.

Trainer Timmy Burton

Like a lot of folks in the thoroughbred industry, trainer Timmy Burton, has held a life-long love affair with horses.  He started riding ponies at the age of 14 and quickly moved on to galloping and riding horses at county fairs in his native Adair County and surrounding counties in south-central Kentucky.  Burton spent the next 10 years working and galloping thoroughbreds for Russell County trainers Larry Hold and Joe Cain.  He received his trainer's license in 1994 and trained for Charles Giles before relocating to Pennsylvania to become manager of a breeding farm operation.  At the Pennsylvania farm, he spent 10 years breaking, training and prepping young horses for the sales.  Burton longed to return to his native Kentucky, so he joined Sano Park Training Center.  Burton is involved in all the aspects of the day-to-day operations of the training center - working young horses, breaking and training horses and putting them on the track.