Bushwood Stable

2010 Record: (1-0-1-0)

2010 Earnings: $5,200

2010 Win %: 0% In-The-Money %: 100%

Owner(s): Brent Johnson, principal; Karl Barth and Chris Dwyer
Born: Johnson, Sept. 6, 1962 in Washington, D.C.
Residence: Johnson lives in Oakton, Va.; Barth in Seattle, Washington; and Dwyer in Chicago, Ill.
Family: Johnson has a wife, Carol, and son, Bryce ... Dwyer has a wife, Gina, a son, Colin and daughter, Meghan ... Barth is single
Education: Johnson and Barth met at George Mason Senior High School in Falls Church, Va. in the late 1970s ... Johnson and Dwyer met while studying at Case Western Law School in Cleveland in the early 1980s
Professional Background: Johnson owns Johnson Capital Management Firm in Fairfax, Virginia, an investment advisory firm. Barth and Dwyer are both practicing attorneys
Racing Background: The three longtime racing fans and handicappers got together to create Bushwood Stable in 2002 … Recently, a fourth partner, Tony Rettino, has joined in on some of the stable’s horses. Johnson and Barth also own a few horses that run under the Falls Church Stable banner
Breeding/Racing Operation: Notched their first stakes win with The World Owes Me, who captured the Snow White Stakes at Charles Town. Bushwood achieved its greatest success to date with Better Talk Now, who won the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Turf at 27-1 odds and has earned more than $4-million in eight racing seasons ... Better Talk Now has taken them to the game’s biggest stages – the Breeders’ Cup, G1 Japan Cup, G1 Arlington Million and more … Johnson and Barth each own 40 percent of Better Talk Now with Dwyer owning the remaining 20 percent … Maintaining his form as an eight-year-old in 2007, Better Talk Now won the G1 Manhattan Handicap at Belmont and in ’08 was second to Grand Couturier (GB) in the G1 Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and third behind Red Rocks (Ire) and Curlin in the G1 Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont ... All Bushwood runners are under the care of trainer H. Graham Motion ... Current Bushwood Stable includes seven runners in training, a broodmare and a weanling ... Roster also includes Better Talk Now's well-known "rabbit," Shake the Bank, who was second in the 2007 Battlefield at Monmouth Park and also started in the 2005 Breeders' Cup Turf, Better Talk Now's half-brother, Better Be Ready, and More Cowbell, a $140,000 Keeneland April two-year-old purchase who was named after a “Saturday Night Live” skit starring Christopher Walken ... Notched their first stakes win with The World Owes Me, who captured the Snow White Stakes at Charles Town.