Charles LoPresti

Charles LoPresti (born September 21, 1957) is an American race horse trainer best known as trainer of two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner and Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year champion Wise Dan, who was also American Champion Older Male Horse and American Champion Male Turf Horse. Unusual for modern American horse trainers, he is based year-round at Keeneland Race Course and does not move his training stable from track to track throughout the year. His first exposure to horses were the pleasure horses of his uncle. LoPresti then spent time around hunters, jumpers, At the age of 19, When the management of Calumet changed, They start about 25 to 30 yearlings each year and house their race string there in the off-season. LoPresti's first Grade I stakes win, however, occurred in 2010 with Here Comes Ben. winning the Woodbine Mile in 2011

In the 2012 World Thoroughbred Rankings, Wise Dan was assigned a rating of 129, making him the best horse trained in the United States and the fifth-best racehorse in the world. At the Eclipse Awards for the 2012 season, he was voted Champion Male Turf Horse, Champion Older Male Horse, and American Horse of the Year. He was the first horse to win all three awards since John Henry in 1981. In the 2013 rankings, Wise Dan was given a rating of 129, making him the third-best racehorse in the world, the best miler, and the best racehorse in North America. He repeated his successes of the previous year in the Eclipse Awards for 2013, being voted Champion Male Turf Horse, Champion Older Male, and Horse of the Year.