How to thoroughbred racehorse trainers get a barn at a track???

Question

I was wondering because all of them have their own and I am wondering how they get their own.

Answer 1

The trainer fills out a stall application prior to the opening of the meet.  The application lists every horse that he wants to bring with him, along with their name, age, s*x, breeding, and race record.  

The racing secretary knows what sort of races he has written for the race meet, so he is looking for particular horses who will fit those races.  He goes over the stall applications, and see which horses he wants to allot stalls for, and which he doesn't, and then he gets together with the stall manager and they assign stalls to each trainer based on his choices.

It is not unusual for a trainer to apply for say, 15 stalls, and only get an allotment of 10,if the racing secretary feels that only 10 of his horses will work at that race meet.

Practically speaking, major trainers get a lot more leeway in stall allocation than small trainers do.  Big horses mean more dollars wagered at the meet, so if a name trainer will bring a few major racehorses to a meet, then the secretary will usually let him have stalls for even those horses who may not fit there, or even allow him to have an extra stall or two empty for shipping in horses from the farm.

How many horses you run at the meet usually helps determine how many stalls you'll get the next year, too.  If you run a ton of horses, the secretary will usually be eager to give you more stalls the following year.  Run very few, and he'll likely cut back the number of stalls you're given.

Answer 2

Every licensed trainer must fill out a stall appliciation at the track they wish to stable at.  The stall appliciation has the name, s*x, and age of every horse they are planning on stabling at the track.  The track's stall manager is the person who decides how many stalls each trainer gets and what barn the trainer stables in.

Answer 3

The previous answer was correct, but a lot of the bigger tracks also have you make a commitment to run "X" amount of horses during the meet. During some of the premiere meets you almost have to be famous (Or have a famous horse in your barn) to get stalls. You are always reading where a "visiting" Trainer borrows a stall from someone they know.