Ignacio Correas, IV

Ignacio Correas, IV joined the Sagamore Farm team as lead trainer in 2009. Ignacio oversees all training operations at Sagamore Farm and prepares the horses daily work out schedules, helps determine race entries and is responsible for the health of the horses.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ignacio has been working with horses his entire life and comes from a family that has been involved with thoroughbred training since 1876. His international horse training career brings vast experience to Sagamore Farm and their race horses.

Notable horses Ignacio trains are Monzon, who won the Count Fleet Stakes on New Year’s Day, 2011 at The Aqueduct and completed in the 143rd Belmont Stakes. In addition, four-year-old colt, Humble and Hungry who had a strong effort at the 2010 Breeders’ Cup World Championship Juvenile Turf and has finished in the Top 3 in each of his six starts in 2011, finishing the year winning the GIII Commonwealth Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs. Correas also trains promising three-year-old filly, Millionreasonswhy, who won her first two starts as a two-year-old including the GII Matron Stakes at Belmont Park on July 3, 2011.

Ignacio lives with his wife in Owings Mills, Md. and has two sons.