[3] At the time, Laurin had conditioned future Hall of Fame inductee Riva Ridge for racing up to the week before he broke his maiden in his two-year-old debut.
[4] In addition to his duties for Ogden Phipps, Laurin had been training horses owned by James Moseley, a member of The Jockey Club and a co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Suffolk Downs racetrack in Boston, Massachusetts.
For Moseley, he most notably conditioned the filly Drumtop, who won numerous top stakes and broke three track records in 1971.
In 1984, he conditioned Chief's Crown to an outstanding season of racing in which he won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
Triple Crown series, then winning the Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap and Travers Stakes, Laurin retired.