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Michael R. Matz
Michael Ray Matz (born January 23, 1951 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania) is an American former Olympic equestrian team member, who was inducted into the show jumping Hall of Fame and is now a race horse trainer. He lives in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. As a trainer, he has scored two wins in the Classics, the 2012 Belmont Stakes (Union Rags) and the 2006 Kentucky Derby (Barbaro). Matz also was named "person of the week" by ABC News for his heroism in saving four children from the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989
==Equestrian career==
Matz had a highly successful equestrian career as a show jumping rider. He was a six-time U.S. national champion, and won at least one major show jumping event in 20 consecutive years. Matz won team gold at the 1986 World Championships in Aachen riding ''Chef'', to go with his individual and team bronze medals he won at the 1978 World Equestrian Championships while riding ''Jet Run''. He also so won the 1981 Show Jumping World Cup on ''Jet Run''. Matz has won a total of four gold medals and four bronze medals at the Pan American Games, and was a member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian teams in 1976, 1992, and 1996. In 1996, he won a team silver medal on ''Rhum IV'', in the show jumping equestrian event, along with Peter Leone, Leslie Burr-Howard, and Anne Kursinski. Matz was also chosen to carry the United States flag into Centennial Olympic Stadium at the Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Games. He retired from show jumping as the leading money-winning rider in the sport's American history, with over $1.7 million. On April 1, 2006, Matz was inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame.
He began to train Thoroughbreds in 1998, making race horse training his full-time profession after he failed to make the 2000 Olympic team.〔Richard Rosenblatt, ("Michael Matz's Amazing Journey to Derby 132" ), ''Associated Press'', May 2, 2006〕 He trains at the Fair Hill Training Center, in Maryland. In addition to Barbaro, he trained the 2005 Arlington Million winner Kicken Kris, and shortly after Barbaro's injury, he returned to the scene of his greatest victory to score another major Churchill Downs win at the 2006 Breeders' Cup Distaff with Round Pond. In 2012 he trained Union Rags to become the winner of the 144th Belmont Stakes.
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