14 Facts About Todd Pletcher

Todd Pletcher won the Eclipse Award eight times as Trainer of the Year, four of these in consecutive years.

Todd Pletcher won the Belmont Stakes with Rags to Riches, Palace Malice, Tapwrit and Mo Donegal.

Todd Pletcher trained Malathaat who won the 2021 Kentucky Oaks.

Todd Pletcher 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.

Todd Pletcher spent the following summer with another legendary Hall of Fame trainer, Charlie Whittingham, working as a groom at Hollywood Park.

Todd Pletcher graduated from college with a Bachelor of Animal Science in May 1989 and traveled to New York immediately following graduation to work for Lukas as a foreman in the active stable.

Todd Pletcher was Lukas's East Coast Assistant until fall of 1995 where he helped develop horses such as Thunder Gulch, Harlan, Serena's Song, A Wild Ride, and Flanders.

Todd Pletcher took out his trainer's license in December 1995 and saddled his first winner, Majestic Number, in February 1996 at Gulfstream Park in Florida.

In 2005, Todd Pletcher set a single season earnings record with purse earnings totaling $20,867,842 with trips to the winner's circle in ten Grade 1 races, including the Travers Stakes at Saratoga with Flower Alley and the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Course with Bandini.

Todd Pletcher broke his own single-season earnings record on October 7,2006, when Fleet Indian captured the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park.

Todd Pletcher's season included a win with Bluegrass Cat in the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park following the colt's second-place finishes in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

Todd Pletcher has amassed numerous training titles in New York, Kentucky and Florida, including five consecutive titles at the Saratoga summer meet.

Todd Pletcher has received several Fourstardave and Woody Stephens Awards from the New York Turf Writers Association.

In 2021, Todd Pletcher was voted into the United States Racing Hall of Fame.