Career
Known as "Buddy" Raines, in the 1930s he began working as a stable hand and became an exercise rider, notably for the United States. Racing Hall of Fame colt Cavalcade. He went on to condition racehorses for 65 years, working primarily on the United States. East Coast and was a regular at Delaware Park and Monmouth Park Racetracks. Buddy Raines met with his greatest success training horses for Donald Ross"s Brandywine Stable.
He had great success with Cochise, winning several important races between 1949 and 1951, including the Massachusetts and Arlington Handicaps and the Saratoga Cup and set or equaled track records at Suffolk Downs and Delaware Park.
As a stallion, Greek Song was mated to the mare Lucy Lufton, a granddaughter of the great sire Nearco. Buddy Raines was residing in Aiken, South Carolina at the time of his death in 2000.
He was nominated for induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2008, Raines was inducted postmumously in the Delaware Park Wall of Fame.