Barry Irwin

Barry Irwin is the owner of Team Valor International, based in Versailles, Kentucky since 1999. A native Californian, Irwin began in racing as a staff writer for The Blood-Horse in 1969 and stopped writing full time in 1978 after 5 years as a columnist for Daily Racing Form. Irwin forms partnerships that race horses in North America, Europe, South Africa and Dubai. Top horses raced by his stable include Ipi Tombe, Unbridled Belle, Prized, Captain Bodgit and Star of Cozzene. He is Chairman of the Board of the Race for Education. He is married to Kathleen Jones Irwin.

GOOD MAN FORCED TO SIDELINES
October 8, 2008
By: Barry Irwin

I don't know Larry Jones. Never met him. But am I surprised that he has had it up to here (I am pointing just north of my own Adam's apple)? No. Not at all. If not Mr. Jones, it surely would have been somebody else. Larry Jones, it seems clear to me, is probably not [...]

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COLLAPSE OF THE PRIVATE MARKET
July 11, 2008
By: Barry Irwin

As the first of the major yearling sales for 2008 is upon us, I would like to sound the death knell for the private market and suggest that a combination of a lack of private trade and institution of accelerated depreciation for yearlings as part of the federal government's economic stimulus package will help prop [...]

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