Val Brinkerhoff
$96,280
2025 earnings
4%
2025 wins
$5,219,485
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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1
Firsts
182
1
Seconds
213
10
Thirds
246
13
Unplaced
1,171
25
Starts
1,812
$96,280
Earnings
$5,219,485
$3,851
Earnings / Start
$2,881
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Bio
Utah native Val Brinkerhoff is a former jockey and a third-generation horseman. He moved on to training after his career as a jockey concluded, mostly because at 5 foot, 10 inches, Brinkerhoff understandably had trouble keeping his weight down.
He took out his trainer’s license in 2008 and saddled his first stakes winner in 2011 when Raetodandty won the Green Flash Handicap. Restrainedvengence won seven stakes races for Brinkerhoff from 2018 to 2021, including his first graded stakes victory in the 2021 American Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
Utah native Val Brinkerhoff is a former jockey and a third-generation horseman. He moved on to training after his career as a jockey concluded, mostly because at 5 foot, 10 inches, Brinkerhoff understandably had trouble keeping his weight down.
He took out his trainer’s license in 2008 and saddled his first stakes winner in 2011 when Raetodandty won the Green Flash Handicap. Restrainedvengence won seven stakes races for Brinkerhoff from 2018 to 2021, including his first graded stakes victory in the 2021 American Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
In 2024, Brinkerhoff shipped Grade 3-placed maiden Where’s My Ring from Southern California to New York, where she won the Grade 3 Gazelle Stakes at Aqueduct to punch her ticket to the Kentucky Oaks.
