64-Year-Old Seasoned American Equestrian Trainer Worth $69,649,461 Achieves Rare Feat at Popular Race Track

An equestrian race is more than a horse running in the field. It represents the dedication, care, and time spent on the horse by different people to keep it in good shape for the race day. The one person responsible for the care and training of the horse to perform at the race is his trainer. So, when a horse wins the race it is a source of immense joy for the trainer.

This joy is fourfold when the trainer wins his 2000th race in his career. Recently, the famed trainer John Servis achieved an unbelievably rare feat at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. This is no small feat and when he started his career back in 1984 he would have never thought he would see this day.

Famed equestrian trainer wins 2000th career race

According to paulickreport, the 64-year-old seasoned trainer was participating in a nine-horse five-and-a-half furlongs distance race at a dirt fast track. The race was for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old fillies and carried a purse of $60,000. Worth $69,649,461 John Servis trained a two-year filly named Dewey Doit won the race and was ridden by Abner Adorno. This was fillie’s maiden race and gave her trainer his 2000th win in his long career. Servis joins the elite club of trainers who have reached such a record.

When he was on his 1998th win Servis was asked about achieving the milestone to which he replied saying that it would be definitely significant for his entire team and would reflect the teamwork put behind his career and the amazing he had worked with in his equestrian journey.

He also pointed out that reaching the record would say a lot about the owners of the horses whom he trained and the trust they had in him. Servis is majorly famous for his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner horse Smarty Jones had a long career in which he had won stakes races and trained many horses who had earned over $69 million.

John Servis’s equestrian career

John Servis was raised in a horse racing environment near Charles Town Racetrack in West Virginia. Initially, he worked as an assistant trainer to Mark Reid for a period of five years. Later on, he got his individual license and started training on his own in 1984. In the same year in October, he got his first win at $2,600 claiming race with Win for Brandon. In 1999 he got his first graded stake win at Grade 2 Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct track with Jostle.

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2004 was his best year when he won the Kentucky Derby, and Preakness Stakes and came second at Belmont Stakes with his trained Smarty Jones. In the same year, he was ranked fourth in terms of earning in the list of top trainers. In 2016 he again saw prominent success when his trained Cathryn Sophia won Grade 2 Forward Gal Stakes, Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes, and $1 million Kentucky Oaks. In 2018 Servis won his first  Breeders’ Cup race at Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with Jaywalk. This year in his 222 starts to date he had won 38 races and earned $1,900,183 to date.

John Servis has achieved a rare feat in his long illustrious career that shows his dedication and passion towards his work and equestrian sports.

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