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Tony Alagna is the son of trotting trainer Donna Lee Ozment. He was riding horses at the age of three and studying pedigrees and bloodlines before he was a teenager. After he graduated from high school, Alagna helped his mother in her stable. After he outgrew his little Welsh Pony, his mother got him a quarter horse, and then Saddlebreds and Morgans. He had a world championship in 2016 with one named Miss Velvet Brown.
His mother was previously one of the top trainers of the tough Chicago circuit. He now has a 148 acre farm with 145 stalls, an equine swimming pool and a seven-eighths mile oval in Howell, New Jersey. He then worked for trainer Brian Pinske before finishing his college degree in 1997. After graduating college, he worked as a private trainer for Pat and Ken Walk’s Fox Valley Standardbreds in Illinois for three years and then spent six years as the top assistant to trainer Erv Miller. With Erv Miller, he helped train horses such as Lis Mara, Shark Gesture, Classic Photo and Muscle Mass.
He started his own public stable in 2009 at the age of 37, and has established himself as one of harness racing’s top trainers. In 2013 he had 151 wins and 5.44 million in purses. In 2019, he was ranked third in North America. His stable has amassed $75.77 million in purses as of August, 2024.
Alagna trained the famous pacer Captaintreacherous, who was named Pacer of the Year in 2012 and 2013. Captaintreacherous became the first pacer to receive the award two years in a row since Jenna’s Beach Boy in 1995-1996, and joined Niatross as the only horses to receive the award at ages 2 and 3 since the award was first given in 1970. Pacer Bret Hanover won the American Harness Horse of the Year award three years in a row, at ages 2, 3, and 4 with the Horse of the Year Award from 1964-1966.
In 2020, Alagna won in the Hambletonian Stakes with Ramona Hill, ridden by Andrew McCarthy. The winning time was 1:50.1.
Other top horses for Alagna have been My MVP, who won the 2012 Kentucky Futurity, as well as stakes-winners Authorize, Fresh idea, Handover Belle, Ideal Magic, Major Bombay, Mel Mara, Nikki Beach, and Rockaround Sue. Tony Alagna also had nine wins with his 2 year olds on July 7, 2023 at the Meadowlands.
“I definitely get my work ethic from my mom.” Alagna said. “She instilled in me that if you don’t work hard, you’re not going to be successful. Mom always told me that if you don’t take care of the horse, the horse won’t take care of you.” Ken Weingartner
| Year | Race | Horse | Trainer |
| 2012 | Metro Pace | Captaintreacherous | Tim Tetrick |
| 2013 | North America Cup | Captaintreacherous | Tim Tetrick |
| 2013 | Meadowlands Pace | Captaintreacherous | Tim Tetrick |
| 2013 | Cane Pace | Captaintreacherous | Tim Tetrick |
| 2013 | Breeders Crown 3 YO Colt & Gelding Pace | Captaintreacherous | Tim Tetrick |
| 2014 | Metro Pace | Artspeak | Scott Zeron |
| 2015 | Messenger Stakes | Revenge Shark | Yannick Gingras |
| 2016 | Adios Pace | Racing Hill | Brett Miller |
| 2016 | Messenger Stakes | Racing Hill | Brett Miller |
| 2016 | Breeders Crown 3 YO Colt & Gelding Pace | Racing Hill | Brett Miller |
| 2017 | Breeders Crown 2 YO Colt & Gelding Pace | Stay Hungry | Doug McNair |
| 2018 | Cane Pace | Stay Hungry | Doug McNair |
| 2018 | Messenger Stakes | Stay Hungry | Doug McNair |
| 2019 | Breeders Crown 2 YO Filly Trot | Ramona Hill | Andrew McCarthy |
| 2019 | Breeders Crown 2 YO Filly Pace | Reflect With Me | Andrew McCarthy |
| 2019 | Breeders Crown Open Pace | American History | Joe Bongiorno |
| 2020 | Hambletonian Stakes | Ramona Hill | Andrew McCarthy |
| 2020 | Little Brown Jug | Captain Barbossa | Joe Bongiorno |
| 2021 | Cane Pace | Rockyroad Hanover | Dexter Dunn |
| 2023 | Kentucky Sire States | Better is Nice | Andrew McCarthy |
| 2023 | New Jersey Sire States | Better is Nice | Andrew McCarthy |
References
1. “ TONY BIO” (http://www.alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html) ALAGNA RACING. http://www. Alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html. August 9, 2020. (Mom behind the Alagna Empire, 6 August 2022; Kimberly Reinker, The Hambletonian Society)
2. “Dan Patch Awards” (https://web.archive.org/web/20200629225826/http://www.worldclasstrotting.com/Race StatistikAll/OvStatistik/AretsHastIUsa.htm). www.worldclasstrotting.com. Archived from the original (http:// www.worldclasstrotting.com/Race StatistikAll/OvStatistik/AretsHastIUsa.htm). June 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200629225826/http://www.worldclasstrotting.com/Race StatistikAll/OvStatistik/AretsHastIUsa.htm. August 9, 2020.
3. “Ramona Hill Did It” (https://travnet.se/ramona-hill-gjorde-det/). Travnet. August 8, 2020. https://travnet.se/ramona-hill-gjorde-det/. August 9, 2020.
4. “Ramona Hill equals stakes record in Hambletonian” (http://ustrottingnews.com/ramona-hill-equals-stakes-stakes-record-in-hambletonian/). http://ustrottingnews.com/ramona-hill-equals-stakes-stakes-record-in-hambletonian/. August 9, 2020.
5. (Nick Salvi, Harness Racing News, 7/7/23)