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LOUISIANA 2023 TOBA Breeder Thomas Galvin
Thomas Galvin (center) receiving the Louisiana 2023 TOBA Breeder Award.
Louisiana’s 2023 TOBA Breeder, Thomas Galvin has had a lifelong interest in the thoroughbred industry.
When he was a teenager, Omaha, Neb., native Thomas Galvin would sneak into Ak-Sar-Ben Race Track to watch the horses run. "Watching those horses race inspired me to get into horse racing. I loved watching them run." As an adult in Dallas, he would find a path into racing through a partnership when he was introduced to Coast to Coast Racing. "They were looking for investors, and I was looking for a way into the industry," Galvin said of that first step which would lead to a life in racing.
At a 2005 sale in Texas, Galvin purchased three Thoroughbreds to officially start his breeding venture. Currently Galvin has two mares, one foal, and one yearling, and five horses in training. He typically races his horses and John Caulfield comes in as a partner.
One of the most important races in Galvin's career came early. It was not with a horse he bred, but with a horse he purchased and campaigned—Su Casa G Casa, a gelding by During—Seda Fina, by Known Fact. Paced by seven wins from 19 starts, Su Casa G Casa earned $473,473. In 2010 that big moment arrived when Su Casa G Casa posted a front-end score in the Kip Deville Stakes at Remington Park, giving Galvin his first black- type score.
Success with one of his homebreds would arrive through A G's Charlotte, a 2019 daughter of Mo Tom-Adrianne G, by Indygo Shiner. In her 3-year-old season of 2022 A G's Charlotte would win a pair of stakes including the Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Distaff Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
With just five horses he bred running in 2023, Thomas Galvin had two stakes winners giving him a stakes winning per cent of 40%.
Norah G winning the 2023 Louisiana Cup Day Filly and Mare Sprint at Louisiana Downs. Ann Switalski photo.
Norah G. (Fast Anna - Mr. G’s Moonshine) won the Louisiana Cup Day Filly and Mare Sprint at Louisiana Downs and ran second in the Magnolia Stakes at Delta Downs in 2023 as a 3-year-old. Previously at 2, she ran 2nd in the Louisiana Champions Day Lassie before winning the Louisiana Futurity. Thus far in 2024 she has placed in the Louisiana Legends Turf Distaff and the Louisiana Cup Distaff. Her lifetime earnings today are over $250,000.
A G's Charlotte wins the 2023 Spotted Horse Stakes at Evangeline Downs. Coady Photography.
The Spotted Horse Stakes was the only 2023 stakes win for A G’s Charlotte (Mo Tom-Adrianne G) but she was second in six different stakes races: The Red Camelia Stakes, the Shantel Lanerie Memorial, the John Valene Memorial Stakes, the Louisiana Legends Turf Distaff and the Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Distaff at the Fair Grounds plus the EVD Distaff plus a third in the Louisiana Premier Night Distaff. She continues to prove herself among 2024 stakes competion in the state with a victory in the Red Camelia and a 3rd in this year’s running of the Shantel Lanerie Memorial S. Her lifetime earnings are approaching half a million dollars.
Galvin is also breeder of two 2023 stakes placed runners.
A G’s Charlotte’s half sister, Olivia G. (Strong Mandate-Adrianne G) placed in three 2023 stakes: La Bred Premier Starlet Stakes, Louisiana Broodmare of the Year Buttercup’s Song Stakes, and Doris Hebert Memorial Stakes.
Another half sister, Tommie G (Court Vision-Adrianne G) was twice stakes place in 2023, and currently has placed in two more stakes so far in 2024.
Galvin’s homebreds earned him 2023 Louisiana Leading Breeder by Percentage of Stakes Winners in addition to his TOBA award.