Frank Brothers

Sport: Horse Racing

Induction Year: 2015

Induction Year: 2015

A New Orleans native who trained Thoroughbred horses for nearly four decades, Brothers saddled 2,359 winners from 10,440 starters (22% wins, 50% in the money) and earned $48.9 million in purse money from the time Equibase began keeping statistics for trainers in 1974. He had 348 stakes wins, 50 graded stakes races — most notably wins in the 1991 Preakness and Belmont Stakes with Hansel. Brothers received the Outstanding Thoroughbred Trainer award from the United Thoroughbred Trainers of America in 1991, while Hansel won the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old. After 10 years as an assistant to Hall of Famer Jack Van Berg, Brothers struck out on his own in 1980 and was the leading trainer at Louisiana Downs nine times and Fair Grounds on five occasions. In the 1990s, he moved his operations to Kentucky and Oaklawn Park, and won training titles at Keeneland, Oaklawn Park and Churchill Downs. Served as private trainer for Lazy Lane Farms and later for Claiborne Farm for much of that time. Brothers won his first graded stakes race in the Fair Grounds Classic with Police Inspector in 1984. He last trained in 2009 and now serves as a bloodstock agent. Born 10-24-1946 in New Orleans.