Birth Date: May 15, 1969
Birth Place: Frederick, Maryland

2011 SEASON: tied for fourth in the local standings with 36 wins…finished in the top 10 of the standings during all three meets (Laurel winter, Pimlico spring & Laurel fall)…saddled three winners at Laurel on November 29…Norman Asbjornson finished second in the Grade 2 Gotham Stakes, fourth in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial and was 11th in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes…set career-highs in earnings ($2.1 million) and was 67th in North America with 84 winners.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: top trainer in the state in 2010, winning titles at the Laurel Park winter and summer meetings…ranked in top 15 of the local standings the last eight years, including fourth place finishes in 2004, 2005 and 2009…burst onto the scene with a terrific winter meet at Laurel in 2002 where he saddled eight winners from just 26 starters won 2005 Pimlico Distaff (Grade III) with Silmaril, who upset champion Ashado…Silmaril won the 2008 What A Summer Stakes in her final career race to become the 17th Maryland-bred millionaire (fifth mare)-she finished her career with 12 stakes victories at five different distances for $1,032,973…Lexi Star finished her career with more than $600,000 in earnings, including five stakes victories…conditioned multiple stakes winners Deer Run and Five Steps…saddled his first winner at Laurel Park on November 16, 1997 with Runny Babbitt…named outstanding trainer by MTHA in 2007…pulled off a rare double on Feb. 15 when Greenspring and Sweet Goodbye captured the Grade II General George and Barbara Fritchie Handicaps in 2010…Sweet Goodbye won three stakes during the Laurel winter meet, while Greenspring also won an added money race prior to the General George...won four races at Laurel on August 14, 2010 and added a pair at Charles Town that night.

PERSONAL: father Phil is a steward at the Maryland tracks and a former rider who won 3,991 races in his career…all-state soccer player at Frederick High School in mid-1980’s and played collegiately at Elizabethtown University…galloped horses for trainer Donald Barr after college, including Who Wouldn’t, who won the Grade II General George Handicap in 1995.