Mark E. Casse is one of the leading Thoroughbred racehorse trainers in North America.
He has won multiple awards, including 12 Sovereign Awards for outstanding trainer in Canada, while he has also taken the title of leading trainer at Woodbine Racetrack 14 times.
He has a career record of over 3,000 wins, 2,750 seconds and 2,450 thirds from over 18,500 starts. His total purse earnings are above $186million.
Racing in the family
Early training career
Move to Canada
2007 saw Casse claim another Woodbine training title along with his second Sovereign Award. That same year, he won the Canadian Triple Tiara and various other big stakes races with Sealy Hill, the trainer's first Canadian Horse of the Year.
Sealy Hill was the runner-up finisher in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf before going on to be inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Casse won his third straight Sovereign Award that year too.
Casse's fifth consecutive Woodbine training title came in 2011 when he won a record 119 events. He also secured his fourth Sovereign Award, which was to start a run of eight consecutive gongs through to 2018 inclusive.
His total of 13 stakes victories in 2011 included the Grey Stakes, a race where Casse had the top three finishers. That same year, Pool Play provided him with his first Grade 1 win since 2001 in the Stephen Foster Stakes, coming in at 36/1.