Nick Zito

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Nick Zito
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Occupation: Trainer
Birthplace: New York City, New York Flag of the United States
Birth date: February 6, 1948 (age 60)
Career wins: 1,500+ (ongoing)
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
American Classics / Breeders' Cup wins:
Kentucky Derby (1991, 1994)
Preakness Stakes (1996)
Belmont Stakes (2004, 2008)
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (1996)
Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2007)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (2005)
Significant Horses
Thirty Six Red, Strike the Gold, Louis Quatorze
Go for Gin, Storm Song, Birdstone
Albert the Great, Unbridled's Song, Bird Town, Commentator, Da' Tara

Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito (born February 6, 1948 in New York City, New York) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer. His first top level horse was Thirty Six Red with which he won the 1990 Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes and earned a second place finish in that year's Belmont Stakes. Nick Zito went on to win the Preakness once , and the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes twice.

He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2005, a year that his stable won more than $8 million in purses. Zito has also trained the 1996 U.S. Champion2-Year-Old Filly Storm Song as well as Bird Town who was voted the 2003 U.S. Champion 3-Year-Old Filly.

Nick Zito is a National Spokesperson and Honorary Director of the National Horse Protection Coalition. [1].

Other Graded stakes race wins (partial list):

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