Casey Wright

Wright was born September 1, 1981, and lives in Reagan, Henderson County, Tennessee.[1] He has a brother named Michael, who is also a horse trainer.[2] He and his wife Lindsey have a daughter and son, Emma and Ryder.[3]

Casey Wright and I Am Jose in 2013

Wright operates a training stable in Reagan, Tennessee, with his brother Michael.[2] Casey Wright trained the Racking Horse Gold Plated SD, who won the Four-Year-Old World Championship in the 2002 Racking Horse World Celebration.[4] The following year Wright and Gold Plated SD won the World Grand Championship.[5] Wright later trained and rode the three-time World Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse stallion, I Am Jose.[6] I Am Jose and Wright won the four-year-old stallion World Championship at the 2013 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration.[7] Wright and the horse's owners, Billy and Debbie Woods of Lexington, Tennessee, made the decision to enter I Am Jose in the open World Grand Championship, which he won on Wright's birthday.[7] I Am Jose, who beat a class of 8 horses to win, also made history by being the first four-year-old to win the World Grand Championship since Shaker's Shocker in 1966.[1] Wright was also named Trainer of the Year by the Walking Horse Trainers' Association.[7] The next year, Wright entered I Am Jose in the World Grand Championship and won again, becoming the first repeat winner since Go Boy's Shadow in 1955 and 1956.[1] The 2014 competition was made somewhat harder on the horses by the fact that it had rained for 5 hours by the time the class was called, making the arena footing slippery.[1] Wright said, "It was a little bit slick, but it was pretty firm up in under it."[1] In 2015, Wright and I Am Jose won their third consecutive World Grand Championship in front of a crowd of 15,000.[2] They are only the second horse and rider team to do so, after The Talk of the Town and his trainer Steve Hill in 1951–1953.[2][6] In 2016 the Woods put another horse, Pocket Time, in training with Wright. He and Pocket Time won the Two-Year-Old Championship in the National Trainer's Show. [8]