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Todd Pletcher (born June 26, 1967, Dallas, Texas) is a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He won three consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year, while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Nickname: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Incorporated 2 February 1856 Government - Mayor Laura Miller Area - City 385. ...
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer. ...
In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. ...
The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ...
Pletcher broke his own single-season earnings record on October 7, 2006, when Fleet Indian captured a win in the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park. That win proved to be a first in a day of multiple winners for Pletcher as Honey Ryder won the Flower Bowl Invitational, English Channel won the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes, and India won the Fitz Dixon Cotillion Breeders’ Cup Handicap at Philadelphia Park. His purse earnings total $27,670,243. Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York in Nassau County on Long Island (just outside of New York City). ...
He broke the 19 year-old North American record for most stakes wins in a year, on October 14, when the two year-old colt Scat Daddy won the $400,000 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park, making it the 93rd stakes victory of the year for Pletcher. The record was set by his former boss and mentor D. Wayne Lukas in 1987. Pletcher’s 93 stakes wins include 52 graded events and a career best 17 Grade 1 wins. Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer. ...
Pletcher’s season includes a win with Bluegrass Cat in the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park, NJ followed by the colt’s second place finishes in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Bluegrass Cat is a thoroughbred horse. ...
Monmouth Park Racetrack is a one-mile oval track for thoroughbred racing in Oceanport, New Jersey. ...
The Kentucky Derby, the worlds preeminent horse race, is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ...
The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ...
In 2005, Pletcher set a single season earnings record with purse earnings totaling $20,867,842 with trips to the winners’ circle in ten Grade 1 races, including the Travers Stakes at Saratoga, NY with Flower Alley and the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, KY with Bandini. Keeneland Race Course at Dawn There is also a town in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with the same name, unrelated to this article; for the town, see Keeneland, Kentucky. ...
Pletcher has amassed numerous training titles in New York, Kentucky and Florida, including five consecutive titles at the prestigious Saratoga Race Track summer meet. He has received several Fourstar Dave (for Special Achievement at Saratoga Race Course) and Woody Stevens (for Outstanding trainer) Awards from the New York Turf Writers Association.
In 2004 he trained three year-old filly Ashado to a win in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs, KY. Later that year Ashado won the Breeders' Cup Distaff. The filly went on to capture the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old of the year in ‘04 and as Best Older Female in ’05. Her stablemate, Speightstown, gave Pletcher a second Breeders’ Cup win in ’04 in the Sprint division as well as a second Eclipse award when he was named Outstanding Sprint Horse that same year. Composite image of Churchill Downs on Derby Day, 1901 Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, is a thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby. ...
The Breeders Cup Distaff is a Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up. ...
Todd began working for his father Jake Pletcher as a hot walker at the age of seven. During his summers off from junior and senior high school he went to California where he worked as a hot walker for Henry Moreno at Hollywood Park, CA and Del Mar, CA.
He graduated from high school in 1985 and began college at the University of Arizona in their Race Track Industry Program in the fall of that year. Between his sophomore and junior years he worked as a groom for D. Wayne Lukas at Arlington Park in Chicago, IL. He spent the following summer with another legendary Hall of Fame trainer, Charlie Whittingham, working as a groom at Hollywood Park. The University of Arizona (UA or U of A) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. ...
Arlington Park is a horse racetrack in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. ...
He graduated from college with a Bachelor of Animal Science in May of 1989 and traveled to New York immediately following graduation to work for Lukas as a foreman in the active stable.
In 1991 he was promoted to assistant trainer for Lukas, splitting his time between New York and Florida. Pletcher was Lukas’ East Coast Assistant until the end of 1995 where he was instrumental in the development of such great horses as Thunder Gulch, Harlan, Serena’s Song, A Wild Ride, and Flanders. He took out his trainer’s license in December of 1995 and saddled his first winner, Majestic Number, in February 1996 at Gulfstream Park in FL.
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