Steve Klesaris

Born: January 6, 1960, Boston, Massachusetts
Resident: Lincoln University, PA
Family: Wife: Lillian ... Father Peter, and older brother Robert, also are trainers
2007: (437 122 .28)

Highlights

Saddled his first winner, Stronger, at Suffolk Downs in 1978 at age 18
After a few years on his own, Klesaris went to work for his brother Robert as his assistant at Garden State Park
Saddled Passing Ships to victory in the 1990 Kings Cup in Saudi Arabia
The Klesaris brothers joined forces on the New York racing scene from 1990-92 before Steve became a jockey's agent, working for Richard Millipore and Herb McCauley from 1992-95
Returned to the trainers' ranks in September 1995
Had immediate stakes success upon his return, winning the 1995 Hawthorne Gold Cup and Gallant Fox Handicap with Yourmissinthepoint.
Klesaris would win the Gallant Fox again in 1996 with Ave's Flag
Trained Splendid Sprinter to victory in the $100,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap at Calder in 1996.
Won the Grade 3 Laurel Futurity in November 2000 with Buckle Down Ben.
Once again developed a Triple Crown competitor with 2000 In Reality Stakes winner Booklet, who was sold on New Year's Day of 2001 to John Oxley before winning the Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth Stakes
Saddled New York Stallion Series (Great White Way division) winner Accurate in 2004, as well as Delaware-based multiple-stakes winner Misty Sixes
Current Klesaris stable races actively in New York and Delaware Park much of the year
Based at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland with his mid-Atlantic runners
Three members of the Klesaris family saddled winners Sept. 26, 2005 at Delaware Park: Robert in the first race, Steve in the third and seventh races, and Peter in the ninth race
Klesaris’ stable star in 2007 was Diabolical, who would have been one of the favorites for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint based on his winning performance in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt ... In early September he got an offer from Darley to purchase Diabolical. Diabolical was sold for an undisclosed price. He's being prepared for the 2008 Golden Shaheen
Master of Disaster, another stakes winner, ran second to Henny Hughes in the Saratoga Special in July 2005
Top filly sprinter Miraculous Miss won six of her first eight starts, including a pair of grade 2 stakes, the Forward Gal and Comely in 2006 ran in the 2007 Breeder's Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and took 2nd place

"My father and brother were involved with show horses when I was growing up in Massachusetts. Then my father bought a racehorse and that's how my interest got started in racing. I worked for my brother who was training while I was in high school. After graduating, I trained for a couple of years on my own before becoming my brother's assistant. I had a division for him at Garden State Park when they reopened after a fire. My brother and I were training partners in New York from 1990 to 1992. I became a jock's agent in 1992 until 1995. I worked about a year and a half each for Richard Migliore and Herb McCauley. I went back to training for myself in September 1995."