Christopher Crocker, trainer is based in Maryland at Laurel Race Park. Top quality grain and hay is provided to ensure your horse receives the best performance nutrition. Supplements are provided as well, to maximize athletic ability. Nothing is overlooked when it comes to peaking your horse's performance. Crocker instills confidence in your horses, along with a competitive spirit, or what we say in the business, "heart". Crocker believes in not only achieving physical strength, but giving mental strength to the athletic horse as well. His racing stable studies the latest advances in equine sports medicine and nutrition and customizes a training program for each individual equine athlete. Cardiovascular health, respiratory health and muscular skeletal health all must work together to prevent early injuries and develop a total thoroughbred. "We believe in developing the total thoroughbred race horse." -Christopher Crocker

Careful, individual monitoring of each horse's blood counts and cardiovascular health are very important to us. Heart monitors can be used to determine peak performance as well as blood test to determine performance levels. This ensures peak performance health of your horse and readiness to race.

Respiratory health is just as important, to insure maximum oxygen intake is available to fuel the muscles. Each horse has a threshold of performance and we will find it safely. Taking guess work out of the equation reduces wasted time, cost and most importantly, down time from injury.

Muscular Skeletal Health is very important in young thoroughbreds. A horse's bones don't mature until about 4 years old. This development stage is overlooked or ignored by many thoroughbred race horse trainers and cost, owners in the industry, millions of dollars in lay-up cost and veterinarian care. Many trainers consider injuries involving bones are just growing pains and feel time out in the pasture is the cure all, but many re-injure after returning. These injuries can be caught in early stages and time off is not always the best treatment. Most of these injuries are preventable with the proper understanding and education in this area. Lengths of workout distances and frequency of these workouts in 2 year old horse are found to be a key factor in building bone strength. Speed of workouts should be controlled at all ages, but particularly young thoroughbreds, to prevent unnecessary injuries due to high stresses on joints and bones.