Glen's history in the horse racing game can be traced back to the moment his parents met at Hastings Park in 1939. "There's a lot of history of it in my family," says Glen, who is best known outside of the Thoroughbred racing circuit as the founder of the annual Canada Cup International Womens' Fastpitch tourney at Softball City. He was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 for his long-time involvement with softball also the Softball BC Hall of Fame, the Softball Canada Hall of Fame, the World Baseball Hall of Fame and the BC Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.
Glen's favourite childhood pastime was attending races with his father. Any opportunity he had to be around Thoroughbred horses, and the people who work with them, was considered an education in how to recognize what makes a horse a frontrunner. Glen took that accumulated knowledge and, over the years, has turned it into an impressive talent for discerning a potential winner when he sees one.
Since the retirement of Troy Taylor, beloved Hastings Racecourse fixture and longtime trainer of Glen's horses, Glen has taken over training his stable of Thoroughbreds. As he says: "There isn't a bigger thrill in the world than your horse winning a race."
Glen opened the Derby Bar and Grill in 2008. A cozy and classy restaurant, it provides a complete off- track betting Teletheatre introducing new people to horse racing and developing the business as a whole. It offers simulcast horse racing from tracks around North America on dozens of screens, including tabletop versions. Throughout, several automated machines take bets, as does the mutual teller located at the back of the restaurant. Like a proud father, he has framed photos of his winning horses lining the hallways outside of the restaurant.
Growing up in Southern California, Barry hung around after school watching his dad, C.R. Chay Knight, race his quarter horses at Los Alamitos then followed his dad to Santa Anita when he switched to training Thoroughbreds. Barry quickly became engrossed in everything related to horses while working at his father's stable, breaking the babies and training two-year olds. He soon took over running the stable winning several stakes races at various tracks around the country.
Barry worked for Hall of Fame Trainers, Leroy Jolley and Elliot Burch and lived in owner C.V. Whitney's cottage on the Belmont Park backside. He worked at the best racetracks for the most successful people in the sport and knew training Thoroughbred racehorses was what he wanted to do.
In 2008, Barry's career took him to Saudi Arabia to train the two-year olds for Prince Sultan, a total of 65 horses.
He returned home and worked in California where he met Glen Todd and, after his immigration papers came through, Barry moved to Vancouver in 2014 and began working for North American Thoroughbred Horse Co.