Joe Pennino

Veteran Fair Grounds trainer Joe Pennino, who will turn 93 years old next month, won the fifth race at Fair Grounds Thursday with Miss Lillis, a 4-year-old filly owned by Pennino’s son Frank. Pennino, who took out his trainer’s license in 1941 and talks of galloping Thoroughbreds through unpaved streets in New Orleans in his youth, has been a jockey, jockey’s agent, owner and trainer during his multifaceted career. Earlier in the day, veteran New England and Florida-based trainer George Handy saddled a winner at Gulfstream at the age of 89. Handy took out his own trainer’s license in 1946.