2007 Gulfstream Record

• South Florida-based most of the season, Ritvo began splitting his winter string between Gulfstream and Aqueduct in 2007 ... He won his first training title at the 2005 Calder summer meet.
• He had his best Gulfstream stand in 2002, ranking fifth with 16 wins.
• Best horse to date has been Lord Juban, a multiple stakes winner at Calder and the runner-up in Gulfstream’s 2002 Palm Beach Stakes.
• Other top training successes came with 1999 Tropical Derby winner Valid Reprized and Sweet Jab.
• Started training as an assistant to wife Kathy and as a team they captured the 1994 Calder Breeders’ Cup Handicap with Liberada … Ritvo took out his own trainer’s license in 1997.
• Other recent stakes winners have included R Obsession, Class of Seventy and Tishmeister, winner of the 2007 New York Stallion Statue of Liberty Stakes at Saratoga.

 Career:

• Grew up near Suffolk Downs and began working as an exercise rider as a teenager … After high school graduation, began riding professionally and won 122 races in 1986, his first year in the saddle … Won over 500 races and $5 million in purses in a four-year riding career … Gave up riding in 1990 and worked as racing official at Suffolk before relocating to Florida a year later … Wife Kathy is the sister of mid-Atlantic trainer Mike Petro and jockey Nick Petro.