Page10-B The Lancaster News Wednesday,June 21,1989 Thoroughbreds Trained At

BY LOUISE PETTUS Enoree Center AND RON CHEPESIUK Talk to Greg Smith about horses at his home in rural Enoree and it's hard to imagine that not too long ago he worked a 9 to 5 job selling clothes at Sears in Anderson. Dressed in his working outfit of faded blue jacket and denims and a 's Story button-down oxford shirt, he moves about the family's 400-acre horse farm looking every bit the young The making of a state ^ man with horses in his blood. Smith knows exactly what he wants to do with his life. "I want to be the best trainer I can be," he says. "Someday I'm going to train a horse that wins the Kentucky .WINTHROP COLLEG^^\ Derby." It's a lofty ambition perhaps, but as a member of the family that runs the top money-winning two-year-old the Enoree Training Center, Greg is Young horses arrive at the center of 1976. The center has trained the in the perfect place to realize his in April as yearlings. They are broken and trained through the offspring of such famous sires as dream. Over the past few years the Sentennial, Alyador and Seattle center has become nationally known winter and then in the spring sent Slew. Demons Begon, the 1987 for its training of thoroughbred back to their owners ready to race. Smith also spends much time favorite for the , horses. traveling the country, looking for was also a graduate. The center's most famous South Carolina has no horses to buy and for races in which thoroughbred racing, but it does to enter the ones his family own. alumnus is a . Chris Antley rode as exercise rider for three have many training centers that years before heading for success at play a significant role in the Smith and his brothers were in troduced to thoroughbred horses by the race tracks and fame as a jockey thoroughbred industry. Unlike many superstar. Since leaving the center that are large conglomerates run their late father. Dudley Smith, a farmer who, during World War II, in 1983, Antley has been one of horse like corporations and mainly located racing's top 10 winning riders. In in Camden and Aiken County, the accepted three thoroughbreds to Enoree Training Center is the settle an unpaid feed bill. The 1985 he led all jockeys, with 471 victories to his credit. state's largest family-owned brothers grew up near Lone Star, "There are probable few better operation. located about nine miles from Enoree and a few miles from places in the country for a young The center's overseer is 44-year- Orangeburg. Goree broke horses as person to start building a career as a old Franklin G. Smith, better known a teenager and then began training rider than Enoree South Carolina, and far fewer better teachers to as Goree, a nickname picked up as a horses in 1968 at his father's child from a Texas uncle, Goree "Running Horse Farms." learn from than Franklin G.Smith," Kind. Helping Smith run the writes Edward C. Murano of the business, in addition to his son Greg, Since purchasing the Enoree respected trade magazine The are his brothers John, a trainer; and Training Center in 1976, the Smith Thoroughbred Record. Such ac his wife, Barie, who as bookkeeper family has expanded the business claim led the national throughbred and accountant, the whole family from a 136-acre, 48-stall operation to Owners and Breeders Association to admits, is "the glue that keeps the a 400-acre, 215-stall spread, which name Goree Smith South Carolina's whole thing together." Another each March, hosts one of South top owner-breeder of 1985. brother, Hammie, is based in Carolina's spring horse races, the and helps to train some of Enoree Trails. People come from as the horses owned by the family. far as North Carolina and Myrtle Beach for the race. .Goree Smith's grueling schedule demands that he wear many hats: Since opening the Goree Training business manager, talent scout, PR Center eight years ago the Smiths man, nutritionist, physical have had much success turning out therapist, and others. winners. The first was "Royal Ski,"