Stute MelvinF

American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who had his 2000th race win on 11 December 2010 at Hollywood Park Racetrack. His career includes a win in the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes in 1986, the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies that same year, and the 1987 Breeders Cup Sprint. "Mel" Stute was the younger brother of trainer Warren Stute (1921–2007). His family moved to California in 1934 when Mel was seven years old. In his teens, Stute worked as a groom at Santa Anita Racetrack before winning his first race as a trainer in 1947 at Portland Meadows Racetrack in Portland, Oregon. Since then he won twelve training titles at various California tracks of which six were at Fairplex Park Racetrack, where he was the all-time leader in races won. He died on 12 August 2020 at the age of 93. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less