2007 Gulfstream Record

• Led the nation in wins in 2006 and was ahead of Steve Asmussen for that honor again entering November 2007 ... He passed the 4,000 win mark last October.

• Started training full time on his own in 1991 with one horse but developed into the top conditioner in the Mid-Atlantic with dozens of training titles in Maryland, Delaware Park, Penn National and Philadelphia Park.

• Biggest successes have come with claims he has developed into stakes stars, including Shake You Down who went from a $65,000 claimer in March 2003 to three successive graded-stakes victories in New York, a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and a victory in the Sunshine Millions Sprint the following January.

• His first major national star was Thunderello, who nearly pulled off an upset in the 2002 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, finishing second, a half-length behind Orientate.

• Lake was a finalist for the Eclipse Award in both 2000 and 2001, the latter year when he became just the second trainer in history to win 400 races in a single season along with Jack Van Berg and later Asmussen.

Other:

• Father was a policeman who once shared a hospital room with a horse trainer. Shortly after his discharge, his father purchased a horse and Scott started hot walking him at age 12.
• Oversees an operation of about 150 horses and 50 employees spread across multiple racetracks.