STEVE MIYADI
Born: June 8, 1957, Los Angeles California
Won with 15 of his 36 starters (an amazing 41.6 percent) at the 2005 spring meeting at Golden Gate Fields and finished in a tie with Art Sherman (who had 78 starters) for third place in the trainer standings.
Won races at an incredible 42.3 percent clip during the 2004-2005 winter meeting at Golden Gate Fields, amassing 22 wins from 52 starters and finishing fourth in the standings.
Was the fourth leading trainer at the 2005 winter/spring meeting at Bay Meadows with
31 victories.
Started only 25 runners at the 2004 fall meeting at Bay Meadows but won with 10 of them (40.0 percent) and finished in a three-way tie for eighth place in the standings.
Began his training career in 1987 at Del Mar and notched his first win at the seaside track that year.
Recorded the biggest victory of his career at Del Mar in 1989 when he sent out Drag Race to win the Grade I Del Mar Futurity.
Has trained many stakes winners, including Music Prospector, who in 1990 captured the Santa Catalina Stakes at Santa Anita and ran fourth in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. In 1992, Music Prospector won Silky Sullivan and Kensington Handicaps at Golden Gate Fields.
Took the 2005 Miss America Handicap at Bay Meadows with First Draft and the 2005 Vallejo Stakes at Golden Gate Fields with Lunachick.
Has been based in the Bay Area since the early 1990s but had a two-year (2001-2002) hiatus in Japan.
First job on the racetrack was as a groom for trainer John Sullivan. He went on to work for Mike Mitchell and became his stable foreman.
Is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.