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Trainer Wesley Ward
Trainer Wesley Ward, 53, recorded his 2,000th-career win Thursday night at Churchill Downs when Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Gold for Kitten rallied for a rail-skimming victory in Race 6 under jockey Chris Landeros.
“I was actually moving a bunch of mares and foals from one place to another at my farm in Lexington when it happened,” Ward told the
Daily Racing Form. “It's a great accomplishment, very humbling.”
Ward was born into a racing family, according to the Keeneland media guide. His father, Dennis, is a former jockey who is now a trainer and occasionally saddles horses for his son. His grandfather, Jim Dailey, was a steeplechase rider and later a popular outrider in New York for 29 years.