Todd A. Pletcher

Todd Pletcher
Pletcher in 2016
Occupation	Thoroughbred Horse Trainer
Born	(1967-06-26) June 26, 1967 (age 49) Dallas, Texas
Career wins	4,000+ (ongoing)
Racing awards
Ashado – Top Older Female (2005); Top 3-Year-Old Filly (2004) English Channel (horse) – Top Turf Male (2007) Fleet Indian – Top Older Female (2006) Lawyer Ron – Top Older Male (2007) Left Bank – Top Older Male (2002) Rags to Riches – Top 3-year-old filly (2007) Speightstown – Top Sprinter (2004) Wait a While – Top 3-Year-Old Filly (2006) Uncle Mo – Top 2-Year-Old Colt (2010) NEW YORK TRAINING TITLES: 2006 Saratoga, 24 victories 2006 Belmont Fall, 15 2005 Saratoga, 22 2005 Belmont Fall, 23 2005 Aqueduct Fall, 16 2004 New York, 129 2004 Saratoga, 35 2004 Belmont Spring, 33 2004 Belmont Fall, 23 2003 New York, 134 2003 Saratoga, 35 2003 Belmont Spring, 40 2003 Belmont Fall, 24 2003 Aqueduct Fall, 15 (Tie) 2002 Saratoga, 19 2002 Belmont Spring, 30 2002 Belmont Fall, 18 (Tie) 2001 Belmont Fall, 17 2001 Aqueduct Fall, 13 1999 Belmont Spring, 18 1998 Saratoga, 20
Honours
Received Eclipse Award as Top Trainer in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2014. Presented with the Woody Stephens Award as Outstanding Trainer in 1998, 2002, 2005 and 2006 by the New York Turf Writers Association. He shared the award with Robert Frankel in 2002 and John Kimmel in 1998. Presented with the Fourstardave Award for Outstanding Achievement in Saratoga in 1998 and 2003 by the New York Turf Writers Association.
Significant horses
Any Given Saturday, Ashado, Bluegrass Cat, Devil May Care, English Channel, Fleet Indian, Flower Alley, Harlem Rocker, Lawyer Ron, Liam's Map, Limehouse, Rags to Riches, Scat Daddy, Super Saver, Uncle Mo, Palace Malice, Stopchargingmaria, Rachel's Valentina, Curalina

NEW YORK TRAINING TITLES:

Todd Pletcher (born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. His horse Super Saver won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the first of his 24 horses entered in his career to win the Run for the Roses. He also won the 2007 Belmont Stakes with filly Rags to Riches and the 2013 Belmont Stakes with Palace Malice.

Pletcher began working for his father, Jake, 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 and Del Mar Racetracks.

He graduated from James Madison High School in San Antonio, Texas 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 near Chicago. He spent the following summer with another legendary Hall of Fame trainer, Charlie Whittingham, working as a groom at Hollywood Park. While attending the University of Arizona, Pletcher was an active member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

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