KENNETH MCPEEK

2016 RECORD

320 - 50, 40, 40 

$2,672,981

2016 NYRA RECORD

46 - 4, 5, 5 $502,394

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

* Won his first Travers in 2012 when Golden Ticket dead heated with Alpha

* In 2002, posted the largest upset in Belmont Stakes history when 70-1 Sarava beat Triple Crown hopeful War Emblem and nine others

* Big Sport of Turfdom Award recipient (2002)

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

* Father, Ron, owned thoroughbreds

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

* After graduating the University of Kentucky in 1984, McPeek interviewed for a stockbroker position in New York but instead took a job as a hotwalker for Shug McGaughey

* As a bloodstock agent, purchased two-time Horse of the Year Curlin for $57,000 as a

yearling; the colt was later sold privately and went on to become the richest horse in North American racing history

* Helped develop the Horse Races NOW app for iPhones and iPads

FIRST WINNER

* Final Destroyer, Oct. 27, 1985, River Downs

NEW YORK AND GRADE 1 STAKES

Chasing Bubbles: NYSS Great White Way (2014)

Dream Empress: Alcibiades (2008)

Golden Ticket: Left Bank (2014); Travers-DH (2012)

Hard Buck: Gulfstream Park H. (2004)

Harlan’s Holiday: Blue Grass (2002); Florida Derby (2002)

Java’s War: Blue Grass (2013)

Noble’s Promise: Breeders’ Futurity (2009)

Pat On the Back: Sleepy Hollow (2016)

Prince Arch: Gulfstream Park H. (2005); Saranac (2004)

Pure Fun: Hollywood Starlet (2012)

Rosalind: Ashland-DH (2014)

Sarava: Belmont (2002)

Take Charge Lady: Spinster (2002-03); Ashland (2002)