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Age is no handicap: Horse trainer, 96, is oldest to win race
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Jun. 3, 2017 3:03 p.m. ET

AP
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) At 96, Jerry Bozzo is now the oldest thoroughbred trainer to win a race.
The milestone came when Cotton Tooyah rallied from off the pace Saturday to win by 4 + lengths in the second race at Gulfstream Park in Florida.
Bozzo surpassed Noble Threewitt, who won a race for the last time at age 95 at Santa Anita in 2006. Bozzo already was the oldest trainer to win a stakes race, with Flutterby in the Sea Lily at Gulfstream in 2015.
Bozzo is a retired aeronautical engineer, industrialist and World War II veteran. He has been breeding and training thoroughbreds in South Florida since the 1970s.
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He says people ask him why he's still training horses at his age. His reply? He enjoys it.
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