Tim Tetrick

Born in 1982, Tim Tetrick has taken the harness racing world by storm. He grew up on the family farm in a harness racing family. He knew what he wanted to do for a living by the time he was five. He began by exercising the horses on the farm. His father, Tom Tetrick, is a longtime trainer and driver, and his brothers are well known drivers in the Midwest.

He started driving as a teenager in the Midwest because it was closer to his home in Illinois. Later, he moved to the East Coast and began working as many tracks as possible. It is not uncommon for him to drive several races at one track, hop in his truck and drive to another track and drive some more horses.

At the age of 25, he was already making a name for himself. At age 26 in 2007, he not only broke the record of the most wins in a single season (1,188), he broke the record for the most money earned in a single season as well. With all the record breaking, he added a few more to his collection… he has become the youngest driver to reach 3,000 lifetime wins, the youngest driver to win a million-dollar race, and the most driving wins in a single calendar month (120 races in June). Tim Tetrick is well on the way to possibly becoming one of the best drivers in harness racing history. He has already earned a .401 UDRS rating, which is similar to a baseball player batting .400. While this rating is not unheard of, it is extremely rare with anyone who has had more than 3,000 starts like Tetrick!

Tim Tetrick has won the Adioo Volo Filly Pace, the American National Stakes Trot, the American National Stakes Pace (twice), the Arden Downs Stakes Colt Pace, the Battle of the Brandywine Open Pace, the Breeders' Crown Open Pace, and the Champlain Stakes Filly Pace. He has also mastered the Cinderella, the Pacing Classic Final, the Coaching Club Trotting Oaks, the Colonial, the Countess Adios, the Currier & Ives, the Helen Dancer Memorial, the James B. Dancer Memorial, and the Eternal Camnation.

Tim has continued to show his winning strategies in the Fox Stakes, the Ben Franklin Final, the Hanover Colt Stakes Colt Pace, the Hanover Filly Stakes Filly Trot, the Hayes Memorial Stakes Colt Pace, the Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Hoosier Stakes Colt Pace, the Horseman Stakes Open Pace, the Lismore Final and the Lady Catskill Final. He has also proved his mettle in the James Lynch Pace Final, the Matron Stakes Final, the Meadowlands Pace Final, the Nat Ray, the Little Pat, the Review Stakes, the W. N. Reynolds Memorial, the Art Rooney Pace Final, and the Shady Daisy.

He came in second in the 2008 Hambletonian driving Crazed, but won the Hambletonian Oaks driving Danae in 2007.

Early in the 2008 season, Tetrick has already won over $1.2 million in purse money to his credit and has over 3,800 career victories and $39 million in career earnings. He was named the U. S. Harness Writers Association Driver of the Year in January.

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