5000TH WIN FOR PLETCHER 09 Nov 2020 09:47
Trainer Todd Pletcher
earned his 5,000th career victory at Aqueduct on Friday.
Microsecond scored a
three-quarter length victory in the seventh race. He was ridden by Kendrick
Carmouche and is owned by Mike Repole. Pletcher didn’t saddle his landmark
winner; he was in Lexington, Kentucky, for the Breeders’ Cup.
Pletcher picked up
triumph 5,001 in the first stakes event of the Aqueduct fall meet, when
Shadwell Stable’s regally bred Malathaat led at every point of call and
strolled home a 7 ¾-length winner in the $100,000 Tempted.
Malathaat gave the
veteran conditioner his fifth Tempted triumph after previously scoring with
Smok’n Frolic (2001), Summer Raven (2004), Ailalea (2009), and
Stopchargingmaria (2013).
“It’s such a great
tribute to the whole staff and a lot of people who put in so much hard work,”
Pletcher said, “but mainly it’s about the horses.”
The 53-year-old
trainer has won five Triple Crown races and 11 Breeders’ Cup races in his
career.
He is the eighth
trainer in North America to win at least 5000 races.
