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Training
Margaux is a unique facility with the ability to train on three different tracks - an undulating 5 furlong gallop, manicured 1 1/4 mile turf course and 1 1/16 mile straight track. Our Tepeta all weather surfaces allows for training throughout the year, regardless of weather conditions and designed with the highest regard for safety. We employ some of the best exercise riders and grooms in the industry, who work closely with our training team to produce top athletes.
We create versatile training programs tailored to each individual, and in turn produce happy, healthy horses capable of competing at the highest level of the sport. When our horses depart, they do so with a strong foundation capable of handling the various demands of the racetrack.
Horses in training at Margaux are cultivated in a quiet, relaxing environment that nurtures their minds as much as their bodies. An important element of Margaux’s training program is access to turnout. Horses are turned out in grass paddocks on a daily basis, allowing them time to socialize and simply be a horse.
Tracks & Courses
Undulating Gallop
Margaux Farm’s all weather gallop is an undulating five furlong course built on the lay of the land on four separate hills. This unique layout provides a break from more conventional training tracks and helps to build muscle in a more efficient manner. The turns and hills also help reinforce balance and lead changes in young horses.
Straight Track
The Tepeta all-weather straight track at Margaux has a distance of a mile and a sixteenth with a three and a half furlong tear drop finish. A majority of the speed work takes place on our straight track, with the ability to breeze up to five eighths of a mile. The track is accredited by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, giving us the ability to publish official workouts.
Turf Course
The turf course at Margaux Farm is an undulating mile and a quarter track. The course lies along the Elkhorn Creek and is a natural floodplain to the farm. The soil of the course is rich with silt and maintains good footing year-round. The turf course has three furlongs of flat track where speed work is performed and a one furlong uphill finish.
