ROBERT FRANKEL   Birthdate: July 9, 1941 Birthplace: Far Rockaway, N.Y. Residence: Pacific Palisades, Ca. Family: wife, Bonita; daughter, Bethenny.

2008 Gulfstream Record

Career:

• The Five-time Eclipse Award winner made only one start at Gulfstream in 2008, but it started another multiple Grade 1-winning campaign as 2007 champion Ginger Punch won the Sunshine Millions Distaff ...
• He set records in both earnings and Grade 1 wins in 2003 ... In addition to Ginger Punch, graded-stakes winners from Frankel’s stable in 2008 include Ventura, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, Ariege, Proudinsky, Champs Elysees, Costume, Giant Gizmo, Precious Kitten, Sudan, Mast Track, First Defence and 2-year-old Eclipse contender Vinyard Haven
• He trained Ghostzapper to Eclipse Award as Horse of the Year in 2004
• He has one Triple Crown race victory: The 2003 Belmont Stakes with Empire Maker, who earlier that year set a Florida Derby-record winning margin of 9 3/4 lengths.
• Past major winners at Gulfstream include Medaglia d’Oro, Midas Eyes, Badge of Silver and Sightseek. He also trained Cacique, Aldebaran, Melhor Ainda and Peace Rules. He won 26 trainers’ titles at California tracks since moving his base there from N.Y. in 1972 and won Del Mar’s Pacific Classic four straight years from 1992-1995.

Other: Introduced to racing as a hotwalker at Aqueduct in mid-1960s  Started training career in 1966, with first victory coming on Nov. 29 that year at Aqueduct with Double Dash ... Known early on as “King of the Claimers,” developing such former platers as Baitman, Pataha Prince, Barometer and Lakeside Trail into stakes winners ... Daughter Bethenny Frankel was the runner-up on the 2005 season of NBC’s reality show “Martha Stewart: The Apprentice.”