Birth Date: Sunday, March 3, 1968
Birth Place: Selah, Wash

Son of Washington trainer Dennis Ward and grandson of popular New York outrider Jim Dailey, Ward was Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey in 1984 when he won 335 races and more than $5 million in purses … Riding champion at Aqueduct, Belmont and The Meadowlands that year. Later rode in Italy, Singapore, Malaysia, Illinois and California, where he was aboard Ferdinand when the eventual Kentucky Derby winner broke his maiden as a 2-year-old ... Retired from riding in 1989 because of weight problems and assisted his father before going out on his own as a trainer ...Ward made history in June of 2009 when he became the first American trainer to win at the prestigious Royal Ascot meet in England when 2-year-old colt Strike the Tiger captured the Windsor Castle Stakes. On the next day, 2-year-old filly Jealous Again, whom he also owned in a partnership, won the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes ... Strike The Tiger and Jealous  Again were among the five juveniles plus turf sprinter Cannonball that Ward ran at Royal Ascot during the meet.  ... Shortly thereafter, Ward sold Jealous Again to the Darley Stable of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ... Since shifting his family from California to Palm Beach county in 2006, Ward has had a rising impact at Gulfstream, putting himself in the top-15 and maintaining one of the highest winning percentages on this circuit ... Ward is active across the country and has 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 in 2007 ... Had Cannonball prominent on the 3-year-old scene in 2008 with a third-place finish in the Hallandale Beach Stakes and won two stakes at Calder with 2-year-old filly My Sweet Natalie ... Trained for the late Roger King, the media mogul and frequent Gulfstream patron who died in 2008. Actor Joe Pesci, whose self-named filly finished ninth as one of the favorites in the 2004 Sunshine Millions Distaff, is also among Ward’s clients ... 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.