The sales season looks a lot different these days for Dr. Barry Eisaman and his wife Shari. The husband-and-wife duo's Eisaman Equine was a fixture at the OBS sales for decades, but their shingle has been notably absent since 2023. With the pinhooking and consigning chapter closed, the Eisamans are now focusing on the other aspect of their business: breaking and training two-year-olds and rehabilitating older horses for some of the country's leading ownership groups.One morning earlier this month, as the breeze show was just getting started some 20 miles away, Eisaman sat on his office deck overlooking the track, basking in the peace and quiet of a training session at his 420-acre farm in Williston, Florida.How does he feel about the shift?“Very happy,” he said, pausing before emphasizing the point. “Extremely happy.”“Do you get the point?” he finally asked with a Cheshire cat smile. “But I do still have a lot of involvement in it because Shari and I have owned a share in OBS for a long time. I've been on the board of directors for 20-plus years and I've also been vice president the last five years or more.”So while Eisaman is no longer among the OBS consignors, the veterinarian and veteran horseman remains a fixture on the sales grounds while simultaneously greeting the influx of owners who drop by the farm when they're in town every spring.Eisaman Equine breaks horses for the powerhouse partnerships of West Point Thoroughbreds, Belladona Racing and Starlight Racing. These groups frequently host farm events with Eisaman to give their partners an immersive look at their young equine athletes' development.“It's really interesting that people who are new to racing, even some that have been in it for a while, don't really understand very well what goes on in a young horse's life from buying them at Keeneland to going to the races at Saratoga,” Eisaman said. “It's like a big blank spot. You buy them and they appear.”The blue and yellow saddle towels worn by Eisaman's trainees once served as a filter for visiting trainers and agents, distinguishing sales prospects with horses headed straight to the track. Now they act as visual markers for ownership groups picking their horse out in the crowd.Many of the West Point owners visiting this spring are getting a look at the partnership's 2-year-olds by 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline.Eisaman has 16 members of Flightline's first crop on the farm including Parden. Owned by West Point and St. Elias Stables, the son of Grade III winner Proud Emma (Include) was an $800,000 Keeneland September yearling.Another Flightline colt, Powerline, is out of GSP Park Avenue (Quality Road) and already made headlines last year when he sold for $1.8 million to John Oxley and West Point at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Eisaman described the juvenile as, “A very, very good prospect.”“I like [the Flightlines] a lot, but the fine print might be that the 16 I have here may be the cream of the crop because the ones that came here are well-intended,” Eisaman explained. “Several are million-dollar yearlings and I don't know what their average would be if you added it up for the ones that sold, but it's high.”The $1.8 million colt out of Park Avenue is now named Powerline | Fasig-TiptonHe continued, “One of the worries on Flightline would be he's a Tapit-sireline horse. Tapit gets brilliance, but one thing people point out about Tapit's offspring is that they can be nervous. All of these Flightlines are like college kids in kindergarten. They are smart. Nothing bothers them. Another concern I hear about the Flightlines, and it's not really a concern, but he was really good at three and four. People are thinking, 'Well this year they're not going to be much because he's not meant to sire 2-year-olds.' But many of those that I have are in the bridle and they're precocious.”Eisaman has plenty of experience recognizing talent early, having raised dozens of Grade I winners. Among the current crop of up-and-coming young stallions in Kentucky, the Eisamans broke McKinzie, Olympiad, Mindframe and Arthur's Ride, who also spent some time on the farm as an older horse.Eisaman looks back fondly on training the 2024 GI Whitney Stakes winner.“As Arthur's Ride got older, he quickly got pretty darn white,” Eisaman said. “Young horses, their minds aren't adjusted to a white horse. When he was here rehabbing, he would come on the track and they would think that something just landed from space. It was really pretty funny.”The Eisamans have produced several Breeders' Cup champions, most recently 2025 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Super Corredora (Gun Runner), and one GI Kentucky Derby winner who also won the second leg of the 2012 Triple Crown in I'll Have Another (Flower Alley).Iron Honor wins the GIII Gotham Stakes | Sarah AndrewEisaman is hopeful that they can make another run at the Kentucky Derby this year. Their team broke Iron Honor (Nyquist), who Eisaman says is the farm's sixth GIII Gotham Stakes winner. They also broke Golden Tempo (Curlin), who has two wins from three starts including a score in the GII Lecomte Stakes. Coming off a third-place finish in the GII Risen Star Stakes, the Phipps Stable and St. Elias homebred runs in Saturday's GII Louisiana Derby.In the Eisamans' program, training starts almost as soon as the yearlings arrive on the farm.“They get a couple days of making sure their temperatures are okay and they are not ill,” the horseman explained. “I find that when you start early like that, they're a little bit disoriented or a little bit tired from the sale. If you give them two or three weeks to get their feet on the ground, you're producing fire-breathing dragons to start working with, so it works well for me to just get going.”That strategy is just one of many details that have led to results, along with the custom database Barry built himself to ensure morning training runs like clockwork and the use of a starting gate constructed with PVC to help young horses build confidence from day one.For the Eisamans, this brand of attention to detail is the best way to ensure that the quality of their trainees translates onto the racetrack.“I lead a pretty blessed life with the people that I have horses for,” Eisaman said. “We have plenty of success with our offspring, but really it's all the conveyor belt. When you're fed nice, high-quality yearlings, it's going to be better than if you're fed a bunch of donkeys. I've been doing this for a long time. The customers that send horses here, I've known for a long time and they don't have a need to try to micromanage anything. They want the horses when they're ready.”The post View From the Deck with Barry Eisaman appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.