Victor the Predictor on the winning side with Vic-Tory Stables | Horse Racing

It all started in 1975 with a group of 20 media members, who came together to form Media Stables. With Media Stables, Victor Cozzetti began his career as a syndicate manager in the horse racing industry. As time went by, the horses changed, the tracks changed, and even the stable names changed, yet Cozzetti remained a loyal contributor to racing in the Northwest. Cozzetti admits that times haven't always been great. But racing, after all, is an industry that can produce unimaginable highs and lows.

May 13, 2010 8:05 pm

It all started in 1975 with a group of 20 media members, who came together to form Media Stables. With Media Stables, Victor Cozzetti began his career as a syndicate manager in the horse racing industry.

As time went by, the horses changed, the tracks changed, and even the stable names changed, yet Cozzetti remained a loyal contributor to racing in the Northwest. Cozzetti admits that times haven’t always been great. But racing, after all, is an industry that can produce unimaginable highs and lows.

Times are great so far in 2010. Vic-Tory Stables and its trainer, Larry Wolf, have sent out a stream of fit and ready runners. He’s All Heart, who Cozzetti named after the heart-shaped pattern on the gelding’s forehead, began his 4-year-old campaign with an impressive 1 ¾-length victory Friday in a six-furlong optional claimer. Known more as a router, the Washington-bred son of Private Gold might be another wild card to throw into an already talented deck of older horses in the stakes division.

“My theory and Larry’s theory has always been to walk before you run,” Cozzetti said. “We’ll put him in an allowance-sprint and see how he comes out, and then we might run him long in a stakes.”

Owned by Vic-Tory Stables IV, He’s All Heart (13-4-3-2-$36,269) and regular rider Robert Burney have been a winning combination four out of their last nine tries and each victory has steadily moved him up the class ladder.

“It took him awhile, but he finally decided to become a racehorse,” Wolf said.

Highdleburg (10-3-1-2-$16,783) decided that he didn’t want his stablemate to have all the glory, so he and jockey Seth Martinez cruised to a 2 ¼-length victory Saturday in a 5 ½-furlong non-winners of three claiming race. The 4-year-old Washington-bred, owned by Vic-Tory Stables VI, has completed his conditions and now must look ahead to open claiming.

“He’s going to be a nice claiming horse,” Cozzetti said.

Cozzetti, also known as “Victor The Predictor,” hosts a fifteen-minute results show on KLAY AM-1180. His segment airs from 8:45-9:00 a.m. Fridays and Mondays and from 8:30-8:45 a.m. on the weekend.