Trainer Ramon Preciado celebrates win number 1,000. Photo by Equi-Photo.
Trainer Ramon Preciado celebrates win number 1,000. Photo by Equi-Photo.

 

Trainer Ramon Preciado had just one starter yesterday.  But that was all he needed.

Fantastic Voyage, a horse he trains for Barbara Hopkins, powered home to a 7 1/4 length score in a first-level allowance at Parx Racing yesterday to give Preciado the 1,000th victory of his training career.  Pablo Fragoso was in the irons in the 1 mile 70 yard test.

Preciado now has 1,000 victories from 4,303 career starts, with purse earnings of more than $25 million.

He took out his trainer’s license in 1991 and trained in relative obscurity until the mid-2000s.  In 2011, he recorded his first 100-plus year when his horses won 105 times in 376 starts.

So far in 2015, his runners have won 54 of 167 starts (32.3 percent) and earned more than $1.3 million.  He is currently on pace to have the best year of his career.

His brother, Guadalupe, is also a trainer based at Parx Racing.

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