Mark Hubley

Born: Sept. 10, 1952, in New York City
Residence: Midway, Ky.
Family: Son of three-time Academy Award-winning animated film makers John and Faith Hubley. John worked for Walt Disney until being blacklisted in Hollywood during the McCarthy era. The Hubleys moved to New York and started their own animation studio where they did extensive commercial work and created famous icons and characters, often using the voices of their children. As a 4-year-old, Mark provided the voice of "Marky Maypo," the cowboy who wouldn't eat his Maypo hot cereal until his dad tried it and liked it. The line "I want my Maypo" became famous ... Hubley has two sons, Benjamin and Samuel.
Education: Attended Friends Seminary in New York and Reed College in Portland,Ore. Graduated in 1974 with a BA in English Literature
Racing Background: Despite his cosmopolitan upbringing, Hubley gravitated to horses and country life. He rode horses as often as he could as a youngster and later worked on a farm breaking yearlings ... After graduating from college in 1974, he worked for a time in California with Monty Roberts, who was a consignor of two-year-olds before he gained "horse whisperer" fame ... Hubley returned to New York in 1979 and took out his trainer's license in 1981, working with a couple of his own horses and earning his first win at Aqueduct with a horse named Eddie's Luck ... Wanting to get out of the city, he moved in 1983 to Finger Lakes, where he trained second-tier runners for, among others, a Dr. Star, who concentrated on New York-breds ... Dissatisfied with racing what he described as "bad horses," Hubley left the business in the mid-1980s ... From 1993 to 2000 he worked in Special Education in the Ontario County, N.Y., school system.
Racing Career: Hubley returned to racing in 2000 when his long-time friends, brothers Jimmy and Larry Doyle, bought a couple of yearlings and asked him if he wanted to get involved again. Beginning back at the NYRA tracks, he split his time between Saratoga from May to November and Kentucky in the winter ... He moved to Kentucky and the Thoroughbred Center training facility in 2005, keeping no more than a dozen horses in training at any given time, most for Doyle and various partners and a few for other clients ... Assistant is George Buarnes ... In 2007, Hubley added the job of managing Larry Doyle's newly-purchased 330-acre KatieRich Farm in Midway, Ky., while Doyle continues to maintain his own residence in Westchester County, N.Y. ... Friends for nearly 30 years, Doyle and Hubley work together to purchase yearlings, looking particularly for fillies to race and later breed as well as the occasional colt. "We got lucky with a couple of fillies that turned into good broodmares," Hubley said. "I have a bigger vision about the whole thing now. I'm getting to live my dream, building the farm from the bottom up." Hubley's lucky fillies include multiple stakes-placed Miss Mary Apples, runner-up in the 2002 G2 Schuylerville Stakes, and Miss City Halo, winner of the 2002 Martha Washington Stakes. Currently in foal to Distorted Humor, Miss Mary Apples produced Hubley-trainee Miss Red Delicious, winner of the 2007 Fisher Debutante at Ellis Park. Miss City Halo was not bred this year but has a weanling foal by Dynaformer. ... KatieRich Farm's broodmare band now numbers 11 ... Hubley made his Breeders' Cup debut in 2007 with multiple G3-placed Your Round, off the board in the Juvenile Turf. His current trainee Codoy, runner-up by a length to Interactif in the G3 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, is entered for the 2009 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.