Carl Nafzger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carl Nafzger

American horse trainer

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1941

Place of Birth: Plainview, Texas, United States

Profession: horse trainer, jockey

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carl A.
Nafzger (born August 29, 1941 in Plainview, Texas) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.
Before he was involved in horseracing he was a championship rodeo bull rider. Nafzger trained Unbridled who won the 1990 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic.
In 1990 he was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and the Big Sport of Turfdom Award.
In 1994, he wrote a book on the training of Thoroughbred horses titled Traits Of A Winner that was published by R.
Meerdink Co.
(ISBN 978-0929346328). In 1998, Nafzger trained Banshee Breeze who won that year's Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Filly.
In 2006 he was back in the national spotlight as the trainer of the colt Street Sense who won the 2006 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the 2007 Kentucky Derby.
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Nafzger moved into semi-retirement, training only for two clients: James B.
Tafel, owner of Street Sense, and Bentley Smith.
Smith's first wife (who died in 1999) was the daughter of Unbridled's owner, Frances A.
Genter, and ran the Genter stable before its dissolution. Nafzger was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2008.