Birthdate - June 26, 1967
Website - toddpletcherracing.com
NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPIONS
Ashado: Top Older Female (2005); Top 3-Year-Old Filly (2004)
English Channel: 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 Male (2010)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Won a record 38 races at Saratoga in 2011, breaking his own mark of 36 set in 2010.
* Captured his second Travers in 2011 with Stay Thirsty, who earlier in the year had also won the Gotham and Jim Dandy and finished second in the Belmont Stakes.
* Received his fifth Eclipse as Outstanding Trainer in 2010; also won 2004-2007.
* Took three of the four 2-year-old Breeders’ Cup races in 2010: the Juvenile with Uncle Mo, the Juvenile Turf with Pluck, and the Juvenile Fillies Turf with More Than Real.
* Earned a breakthrough victory in the 2010 Kentucky Derby when Super Saver rode the rail en route to a 2 ½-length score.
* Trained three Eclipse winners in 2007: Top 3-Year-Old Filly Rags to Riches, Top Older Male Lawyer Ron, and Top Turf Male English Channel.
* In 2007 saddled Rags to Riches to become the first filly in 102 years to win the Belmont Stakes, defeating eventual Horse of the Year Curlin.
* Set single-year earnings mark for a trainer with $26,820,243 in 2006 and broke that in 2007 with $28,116,097.
* Set records for stakes wins (100) and graded stakes wins (57) in 2006, breaking marks set by his former boss, D. Wayne Lukas.
* Saratoga’s leading trainer in 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011.
* Worked for trainer D. Wayne Lukas from 1989-December 1995 and started his own stable in 1996.
NOTABLE STAKES WINS
Adieu: Frizette (2005); Spinaway (2005); Astoria (2005)
Any Given Saturday: Brooklyn (2007), Dwyer (2007), Haskell (2007)
Ashado: Beldame (2005); Go for Wand (2005); Ogden Phipps (2005); Breeders’ Cup Distaff (2004); Coaching Club American Oaks (2004); Kentucky Oaks (2004); Demoiselle (2003); Spinaway (2003); Schuylerville (2003)
Awesome Maria: Ogden Phipps H. (2011); Shuvee H. (2011); Riskaverse (First div., 2010)
Balto Star: Red Smith (2003); United Nations (2003)
Bandini: Blue Grass (2005)
Bluegrass Cat: Haskell (2006); Remsen (2005); Nashua (2005)
Caixa Eletronica: Westchester H. (2011)
Calibrachoa: Bold Ruler (2011); Tom Fool H. (2011); Toboggan (2011); Gravesend (2010)
Circle of Life: Spinaway (1999)
Chapel Royal: Sanford (2003); Flash (2003)
Cotton Blossom: Acorn (2007); Schuylerville (2006)
Devil May Care: Coaching Club American Oaks (2010); Mother Goose (2010); Frizette (2009)
Discreetly Mine: King’s Bishop (2010); Amsterdam (2010)
English Channel: Breeders’ Cup Turf (2007); Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (2006-07); United Nations (2006-07)
Eskendereya: Wood Memorial (2010); Pilgrim (2009)
Fleet Indian: Beldame (2006); Personal Ensign (2006); Next Move (2006)
Flower Alley: Travers (2005); Jim Dandy (2005)
Forest Danger: Carter (2005); Bay Shore (2004)
Game Face: Honorable Miss (2009); Princess Rooney (2009)
Gemologist: Wood Memorial (2012)
Go Deputy: Bowling Green (2006); Sword Dancer Invitational (2006)
Harlan’s Holiday: Donn H. (2003)
Harmony Lodge: Gallant Bloom (2003); Ballerina (2003)
Hilda’s Passion: Ballerina (2011); Vagrancy H. (2011)
Honey Ryder: Flower Bowl Invitational (2006); Sheepshead Bay (2006-07); E. P. Taylor (2005); Glens Falls (2005)
Host: Shadwell Turf Mile (2005); Knickerbocker (2004)
Jersey Girl: Acorn (1998); Mother Goose (1998); Test (1998); Cicada (1998); Nassau County (1998); NYSS Park Ave. (1998); Astoria (1997)
Lawyer Ron: Woodward (2007); Whitney (2007)
Left Bank: Whitney (2002); Tom Fool (2002); Bold Ruler (2002); Cigar Mile (2001); Vosburgh (2001); Discovery (2000)
Life At Ten: Beldame (2010); Ogden Phipps (2010); Rare Treat (2010)
Lion Tamer: Cigar Mile (2004)
Magnificent Song: Garden City (2006); Lake George (2006)
More Than Ready: King’s Bishop (2000); Sanford (1999); Tremont (1999); Flash (1999)
Octave: Mother Goose (2007); Coaching Club American Oaks (2007); Adirondack (2006)
Panty Raid: Spinster (2007); American Oaks (2007)
Proud Accolade: Champagne (2004)
Purge: Cigar Mile (2005); Jim Dandy (2004); Peter Pan (2004)
Quality Road: Woodward (2010); Metropolitan H. (2010); Donn H. (2010); Amsterdam (2009)
R Heat Lightning: Spinaway (2010)
Rags to Riches: Belmont (2010); Kentucky Oaks (2010); Santa Anita Oaks (2010)
Scat Daddy: Florida Derby (2007); Champagne (2006); Sanford (2006)
Smok’n Frolic: Next Move (2003-04); Demoiselle (2001); Tempted (2001)
Speightstown: Breeders’ Cup Sprint (2004); Alfred G. Vanderbilt (2004); True North (2004)
Spun Sugar: Go For Wand (2006); Apple Blossom (2006)
Stay Thirsty: Travers (2011); Jim Dandy (2011); Gotham (2011)
Super Saver: Kentucky Derby (2010)
Take the Points: Secretariat (2009); Jamaica (2009)
Trippi: Vosburgh (2000); Tom Fool (2000); Riva Ridge (2000)
Turbo Compressor: Curlin (2011)
Tweedside: Sheepshead Bay (2002); Coaching Club American Oaks (2001); Sands Point (2001)
Unbridled Belle: Turnback the Alarm (2009); Beldame (2007)
Uncle Mo: Kelso H. (2011); Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (2010); Champagne (2010)
Understatement: Stymie (2010); Evening Attire (2010)
Wait a While: Ballston Spa (2007-08); Yellow Ribbon (2008, 2006); Sands Point (2006); Lake Placid (2006); American Oaks (2006); Miss Grillo (2005)