Trainer Allen Milligan

Born: 07/07/1964; Celina, Texas

Resides: Arlington, Texas

Family: Unmarried 

The current 2009 Spa season had not reached the halfway point when Allen Milligan won his 10^th race. For the entire 2008 Oaklawn season, Allen won 10 races.           

“I have a lot more horses this year,” said the trainer. “Right now, I have 40 head at the track, another 20 at David Whited’s Farm.”           

Milligan assured that there is a lot of esprit de corps at the barn and his entire crew anxiously awaited the present meeting getting underway.           

“We were all sitting on ready.  As well, we had some luck along with it. Some races in the book that we had horses far, filled and we drew in.  For months, my assistant trainer has been saying to me, ‘get us more horses!” mentioned Milligan.           

Certainly, Allen has come up with the horses.           

Asked one particular horse that is coming into his own,  the trainer named Que Paso,  third place finisher  to Prom Shoes and Golden Yank in the recent $100,000 Essex.           

“He is sure doing well, really improving. My plans are to run him in the $150,000 Razorback here March 7,” noted Milligan. 

Allen frequently has a runner in his stable. Fans will remember Irish Milligan, Mucho Bold and Kid Magic.   

“Irish Milligan earned some $450,000,” recalled the trainer. Mucho Bold, an Arkansas-bred, developed into a three-year-old champion at Sam Houston,” Allen noted.             

Allen is a third generation horseman.            

There are a lot of Frank Brothers and Jack Van Berg style of training in Milligan. 

“I came out under Frank, I was with him five years, much of it as assistant trainer. Of course, Frank came out under Jack. In fact, Frank and Bill Mott were with Jack at the same time,” said Milligan. 

Allen has made himself a circuit of Oaklawn, Lone Star and Remington.  

“This gives us a break over the holidays at Christmas and the new year,” he said.           

This year he will divide his stable, sending one division to Louisiana Downs, another string to Lone Star.           

Milligan saddled his first career winner in 1988, it coming at Churchill with a horse named Victory Flyer.