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Tony Alagna
Born June 8, 1972 (age 52)
Champaign, Illinois
Nationality: USA
American
Occupation: Harness trainer
Home tracks: USA: Meadowlands, The Red Mile
Tony Alagna is a famous trainer of standardbred horses and is ranked 5th in all time earnings. His pacers and trotters have won many famous stakes and championship races. 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. [1]
Alagna trained the famous champion pacer Captaintreacherous, who was named Pacer of the Year in 2012 and 2013.[2] Captaintreacherous became the first pacer to receive the award two years in a row since Jenna’s Beach Boy in 1995-1996[3], 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 at ages 2, 3, and 4.[4]
In 2020, Alagna won in the Hambletonian with Ramona Hill, ridden by Andrew McCarthy. The winning time was 1:50.1. Ramona Hill is the only filly to ever win the Hambletonian.[5] Other top horses for Alagna are 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 on the racing card in one day with his 2 year olds on July 7, 2023 at the Meadowlands. He had his 2,000th training win on June 18, 2023.[6]
Tony Alagna is the son of trotting trainer Donna Lee Ozment.[7] He began riding horses at three years old 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 won a world championship in 2016 with one named Miss Velvet Brown. His mother was previously one of the top trainers of the tough Chicago harness circuit and she works with her son now.[8]
He first 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 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 now has a 148 acre farm with 145 stalls, an equine swimming pool and a seven-eighths mile oval in Howell, New Jersey. “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.”[9]
These are some of the famous races won by horses he trained:
Year Race Horse Driver 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 2024 Kentucky Sire States Better is Nice Andrew McCarthy 2024 Metro Pace Fallout Tim Tetrick
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. U.S. Trotting Association, Captaintreacherous
3. Standardbredcanada.ca/12-4-15/jennas-beach-boy-passes.html.
4. Brittanica, Bret Hanover; (Brittanica.com/topic/Bret-Hanover)
5. Hambletonian Society (Hambletonian.com/hambletonianhistory/2020); “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.
6. “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.
7. Greig, Harnesslink, Mom behind the Alagna Empire, August 6, 2022
8. Greig, Harnesslink, Mom behind the Alagna Empire, August 6, 2022
9. “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.
Brown, Harness Racing Update, August 14, 2022
Salvi, U.S. Trotting, Harness Racing News, July 7, 2023
Wikipedia, Niatross
[1] Alagna Racing, Tony Alagna (alagnaracing.com/tony-bio.html)
[2] U.S. Trotting Association, Captaintreacherous
[3] StandardBredcanada.ca/12-4-15/jennas-beach-boy-passes.html.
[4] Brittanica, Bret Hanover; (Brittanica.com/topic/Bret-Hanover)
[5] Hambletonian Society (Hambletonian.com/hambletonianhistory/2020); “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.
[6] Weingartner, “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.
[7] Greig, Harnesslink, Mom behind the Alagna Empire, August 6, 2022
[8] Greig, Harnesslink, Mom behind the Alagna Empire, August 6, 2022
[9] Weingartner, “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.