{"id":329339,"date":"2025-08-09T01:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:37:10","slug":"were-plugging-along-nolan-ramsey-second-in-gulfstream-park-trainer-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329339\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Plugging Along\u2019: Nolan Ramsey Second In Gulfstream Park Trainer Standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018We\u2019re Plugging Along\u2019: Nolan Ramsey Second In Gulfstream Park Trainer Standings<\/a> originally appeared on Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quietly and consistently finding success during the Royal Palm Meet, trainer Nolan Ramsey hopes to keep the trend going when he sends out Robert Proulx\u2019s 2-year-old Street Player in Saturday\u2019s $75,000 Proud Man at Gulfstream Park.<\/p>\n

Ramsey, 28, entered Friday\u2019s return of live racing with 11 wins from 46 starters, a 28 percent success rate that is third-best overall. He also has four seconds and seven thirds, a top-three percentage of 55, and $299,585 in purse earnings at the five-month stand that wraps up Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re plugging along. We bought quite a few 2-year-olds early in the year and we bought a variety. We knew some were going to be earlier and some would be later. Some of those later ones are starting to come around and we\u2019ve picked up some new horses,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing well. Things are going good. We\u2019ve got a string at Ellis, as well. We\u2019ve had a winner up there, also, so things are good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramsey has strings of 30 horses at Gulfstream and another 10 at Ellis Park in Kentucky, where he is 1-1-1 from four starters at a meet that began July 4 and ends Aug. 24. After a decade working as the top assistant for Mike Maker, he is in the second full year training on his own after launching his career with Corrin Park last April 20 at Gulfstream.<\/p>\n

Marshamarshamarsha provided Ramsey with his first winner, May 10 at Gulfstream, and he won his first stakes race with Whenigettoheaven in the Ben\u2019s Cat turf sprint last July at Laurel Park in Maryland. All three horses are owned by his grandfather, multiple Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder Ken Ramsey.<\/p>\n

Nolan Ramsey won 27 races and $855,154 in purses from 110 starters in 2024, and is 20-for-100 with $751,981 in earnings so far in 2025. In addition to Street Player, he has horses entered in four other races Saturday at Gulfstream, including 2-year-old filly Late Night Text, who he said will scratch out of the $75,000 Sharp Susan for a maiden special weight Sunday at Ellis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy with it,\u201d Ramsey said of his first year. \u201cWe started with mostly claimers, and we\u2019ve held our own. I was a little worried going into the winter meet last year, just because it\u2019s a tough meet, good horses, and I wasn\u2019t really sure how we\u2019d fit. But we did a good job of choosing spots and staying competitive, and I think the momentum has kind of carried on into this year. So far, no complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Street Player drew the rail against eight rivals in the Proud Man, which will be the Street Boss colt\u2019s fourth career start and second straight in a stakes following a seventh in the Prairie Gold Juvenile July 5 at Prairie Meadows, contested over a main track rated good. Street Player earned his way there with a seven-length maiden special weight rout sprinting five furlongs May 16 at Gulfstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like him,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cI think the race at Prairie was probably a toss. They had a fireworks show the night before being July fourth, and he had a fit in his stall. He was all washed out. I don\u2019t think he particularly cared for the slop, either, and ended up blowing out an abscess right after the race, so he had a lot of things going on and not go his way.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came out of the race in good shape,\u201d he added. \u201cIf he runs back to that maiden race here, I think he can be pretty tough. I\u2019m not overly excited about the rail draw, but he likes the front end, so as long as he gets a clean break, it might play out O.K. for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramsey had eight wins, three seconds, five thirds, and $236,150 in purse earnings from 47 starters at Gulfstream\u2019s 2024-2025 Championship Meet. He looks forward to having a presence again for the 2025-2026 stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to take a look at the stock and see where we\u2019re at,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce we get through the Keeneland fall meet and see if we want to stay [there] for the winter, but I\u2019ll probably bring a majority of them back here for the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramsey expects his grandfather will also make an appearance at what is one of his favorite meets. Ken Ramsey, currently in Saratoga, continues to recover from a kidney transplant he had last June at the age of 88.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s doing well,\u201d Nolan Ramsey said. \u201cHe called me [Sunday] and wanted to know about my runner. He was betting the Pick 6, so you know that means he\u2019s feeling good. He got clearance from the doctors a couple weeks ago to start going out in crowds again, so I\u2019ll expect we\u2019ll see him here this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report<\/a> on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Plugging Along\u2019: Nolan Ramsey Second In Gulfstream Park Trainer Standings originally appeared on Paulick Report. Quietly and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[94663,99868,118525,118527,118526,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-ellis-park","9":"tag-gulfstream-park","10":"tag-ken-ramsey","11":"tag-laurel-park","12":"tag-nolan-ramsey","13":"tag-racing","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114996251997088837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}