Ken McPeek      Birthdate: Aug. 2, 1962      Birthplace: Fort Chaffee, Ark.      Residence: Louisville, Ky.      Family: wife, Sue; daughter, Jennifer Lynn

2008 Gulfstream Record

• Stopped training in the spring of 2005 to become a bloodstock adviser, only to reopen a smaller stable in summer of 2006. He enters 2009 with high-profile Classic contenders like Alcibiades winner Dream Empress and Ellis Juvenile victor Colonel Rutledge ...
• No stranger to the big stage with 3-year-olds, among his biggest victories was Sarava’s upset of War Emblem and his Triple Crown hopes in the 2002 Belmont Stakes at 70-1 ...
• He saddled Harlan’s Holiday to victory in the 2002 Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes ...
• His first major horse was Tejano Run, who finished second in the 1995 Kentucky Derby behind Thunder Gulch ...
• He trained back-to-back winners of the Gulfstream Park Turf with Hard Buck in 2004 and Prince Arch in 2005 and helped select and train eventual 2006 winner Einstein before his sabbatical. He finished second in the 2008 Pan American Turf with Drilling for Oil ...
• McPeek also acquired 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin during his year away from training for owners Midnight Cry Stable. Curlin raced once for McPeek’s former assistant, Helen Pitts, at Gulfstream before his owners sold a majority interest in the colt ...
• Other major stakes winners: Take Charge Lady and Repent ...
• Won the 2002 Churchill Downs fall training title.

Other: Played high school football in Lexington, Ky., and went on to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1984 with a B.A. in business. He immediately took a job as a hotwalker for Shug McGaughey ... Took out a trainer’s license in 1985. His father was his first client. He later upgraded the stable through owner Roy Monroe, whose son Brian played football with McPeek at Tates Creek High School