2007 Gulfstream Record

• California-based trainer continued his rising impact on Gulfstream in 2007, putting himself in the top-10 and tying Jimmy Jerkens for highest winning percentage among trainers with 30 or more starters.
• Is active across the country and won stakes in New York, Florida and important races in Kentucky as well as California.
• Saddled One Hot Wish to a world record of 48.87 seconds over 4 1/2 furlongs in her debut at Keeneland last spring.
• The late media mogul and frequent Gulfstream patron Roger King was among his clients along with movie actor Joe Pesci, whose self-named filly finished ninth as one of the favorites in the 2004 Sunshine Millions Distaff.
• Scored his first stakes win in the 1994 Cinema Handicap at Hollywood Park with Unfinished Symph, who went on to finish third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile that year at Churchill Downs. Unfinished Symph also won the San Francisco Mile and Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile in 1995.
• Trained Men’s Exclusive, a California-bred gelding who earned more than $1.4 million before being retired at age 10. Men’s Exclusive finished sixth as the favorite in the 1997 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Hollywood Park following victories in the Los Angeles Handicap and California Sprint Championship.
• Shipped Bear Fan to Belmont in 2004 to win the Genuine Risk and Vagrancy handicaps.

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• Family has been involved in racing for many generations, including father Dennis - a Washington trainer ... Paternal grandfather was a blacksmith and maternal grandfather, the late Jim Dailey, was a long-time outrider at New York tracks ... Ward began riding as a teenager and earned the Eclipse Award as top apprentice of 1984. That year saw him win 335 races, over $5 million in purses and the jockey titles at Belmont, Aqueduct and the Meadowlands ... Later rode in Southern California where he was aboard Ferdinand when the Kentucky Derby winner broke his maiden in 1985 ... Retired from riding in 1989 because of weight problems and assisted his father before going out on his own as a trainer in 1993.