Dam Ennuhway Sex Female Country United States Earnings 182,440 USD | Damsire Notebook Foaled 2007 Breeder Ocala Stud Farm Grandsire Unbridled | |
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Lisa s booby trap stays perfect in loudonville
Lisa's Booby Trap is a female racehorse owned by Tim Snyder, a trainer at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York, near Rochester.
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The filly is blind in one eye and has overcome flat-footedness and a club foot to achieve more than $180,000 in earnings.
Snyder bought the horse in early 2010 for $4,500, including his life savings of $2,000, with the balance to be paid after her first win. The filly was named after Snyder's late wife, Lisa, who, before her death, said she would reincarnate as a horse. "I don’t really believe so much in reincarnation," Snyder has been quoted as saying. "It’s a big word, you know what I mean? But, there are a lot of things in this horse that resemble my wife."
Snyder fixed the filly's hoof problems, which were causing her to kick herself on corners. He adjusted her shoes and discovered she could run quite well with the fixes.
Lisa's Booby Trap won her first three races, all at Finger Lakes, under jockey Elaine Castillo. Snyder then entered her in the Loudonville Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, a six-furlong, $70,000 race, under jockey Kent Desormeaux. She also won that.
She suffered her first loss by finishing last of ten in the Riskaverse Stakes at Saratoga under Desormeaux, her first race on turf.
On September 24, 2010, Lisa's Booby Trap entered as a 1-to-4 favorite, but finished third in a race at Finger Lakes under jockey Oscar Gomez.
A book about Lisa's Booby Trap and her trainer was published by St. Martin's Griffin in 2013, The Ghost Horse: A True Story of Love, Death, and Redemption by Joe Layden.
An episode of Dateline NBC, entitled "Lisa's Booby Trap", about Lisa's Booby Trap aired in May 2014.
Timothy Snyder, a trainer based at Finger Lakes Race Track and the owner of stakes winner Lisa's Booby Trap, died March 24 2015 at his home near Camillus, N.Y., according to a Democrat & Chronicle obituary. He was 59 years old.