MEET THE TEAM
Dan Collins
Founder & Manager
Bona Venture Stables is managed by Dan Collins, a life-long racing enthusiast who once spent a summer covering the horse racing scene for The Saratogian newspaper in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In 1996, he became involved in his first racing syndicate and began learning about pedigrees, conformation and the sales process. He purchased his first thoroughbred in 1999 and formed Bona Venture Stables in 2005.
Sarah Collins
Administrative Manager
Sarah Collins is the administrative manager for Bona Venture Stables. She handles the LLC’s financial management along with coordinating its charitable organization support, including the Belmont Childcare Association and Anna House, The Race Track Chaplaincy of New York’s annual jockey vs. horsemen’s charity basketball game at Saratoga, B.E.S.T., and support for multiple retired horses through the Take 2 Second Career Thoroughbred Program.
Jeremiah Englehart
Trainer
Jeremiah Englehart is a New York-based trainer with large thoroughbred horse strings at Finger Lakes Race Track and on the NYRA circuit. His primary base is Saratoga Race Track with an auxiliary barn at Belmont Park. A professional trainer since 2013, he has been involved with the horse industry since childhood. His dad is long-time Finger Lake trainer Christ Englehart. Before going on his own, he learned the business as an assistant to Mike Ferraro and Ken McPeek. He is a perennial Top 100 trainer in horse earnings, with more than 1,800 career wins, including winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Championship with Ria Antonia. Jeremiah and his family live in Schuylerville, N.Y.
George Weaver
Trainer
George Weaver is a New York and Florida based trainer for Bona Venture Stables. George is typically among the top 10 trainers each year at the prestigious Saratoga Race Course meet. He served as a foreman and assistant trainer to racing hall of fame trainer D. Wayne Lucas and Todd Pletcher before establishing his own public stable in 2002.
Based most of the year at Saratoga (Oklahoma training track) he races at Saratoga, Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Monmouth Park, and Laurel throughout the spring and summer.. In the fall he races at Belmont Park and Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, KY. He relocates much of his stable to Gulfstream Park, near Miami, FL for the winter but maintains a barn at Belmont Park year-round. George oversees about 80 horses in training.
Steve Venosa
Bloodstock Adviser & Farm Trainer
Steve Venosa is a veteran horseman, who has been breaking, training and pinhooking thoroughbreds for more than 30 years. He has a keen eye for under-appreciated quality and has served as Bona Venture Stables’ primary sales adviser for more than 15 years. Steve learned his trade as assistant to the legendary Jim Crupi’s of Crupi’s New Castle Farm before launching his own business 10 years ago.