birth_place race birth_date horses honours article_title name occupation
altadena , california usa bing mile -lrb- 1995 -rrb- united nations stakes -lrb- 1995 , 1996 handicap -rrb- hollywood gold cup -lrb- 1996 , 1997 -rrb- john -lrb- c. mabee handicap -lrb- 1996 -rrb- pacific classic stakes -lrb- 1978 1996 , 1997 , 2004 -rrb- oaklawn handicap -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , 2002 -rrb- santa anita handicap -lrb- 1997 , 1998 ancient , 2005 -rrb- pimlico special -lrb- 1997 -rrb- ballerina stakes title -lrb- 1998 -rrb- carter handicap -lrb- 1998 -rrb- metropolitan handicap stakes -lrb- 1998 -rrb- donn handicap -lrb- 1999 -rrb- haskell invitational -lrb- handicap -lrb- 2000 -rrb- arcadia handicap -lrb- 2001 -rrb- goodwood 1990 stakes -lrb- 2002 , 2003 , 2005 -rrb- hollywood derby crosby -rrb- -lrb- 2002 -rrb- del mar futurity -lrb- 2003 , 2006 beverly -rrb- arlington million -lrb- 2006 -rrb- robert b. lewis stakes d. -lrb- 2008 -rrb- thunder road handicap -lrb- 2009 -rrb- clement stakes l. hirsch handicap -lrb- 2015 -rrb- -lrb- 1990 -rrb- railbird stakes -lrb- handicap 1992 , 1996 , 1998 , 2009 -rrb- santa anita -lrb- oaks -lrb- 1992 , 2013 -rrb- clement l. hirsch turf 1978 championship stakes -lrb- 1993 , 1994 , 2002 , 2006 , -rrb- eddie read handicap -lrb- 1993 , 2001 -rrb- frank 1994 e. kilroe mile handicap -lrb- 1993 , 1997 , 2003 -rrb- -rrb- hollywood futurity -lrb- 1994 , 2007 -rrb- strub stakes longacres -lrb- 1995 , 1999 , 2005 -rrb- turf classic stakes november 5 , 1950 action halfbridled , johar , kotashaan , malek , phone chatter this phone trick , pleasantly perfect , rock hard ten sandpit day , the tin man , siphon , beholder , dare and go , gentlemen national 2001 -rrb- museum of racing and hall of fame -lrb- richard e. mandella
 richard mandella trainer
richard e. mandella

richard eugene mandella -lrb- born november 5 , 1950 in altadena , california -rrb- is a thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the u.s. racing hall of fame .
mandella 's father , a blacksmith , introduced him to horses at an early age and while still in high school he began starting and training horses at a nearby ranch .
he spent a year in new york as assistant to lefty nickerson and then took a job with texas horseman roger braugh in 1974 .
two years later , richard mandella returned to california and opened his own stable .
his wins began almost immediately with bad 'n big and continued with phone trick , dare and go , and pleasantly perfect .
between 1996 and 1998 mandella won six straight million dollar races in southern california with dare and go , siphon , gentlemen and malek .
mandella has seen six of his horses run in the kentucky derby .
mandella was inducted in the u.s. racing hall of fame in 2001 and in 2003 he had four winners in the breeders ' cup : pleasantly perfect , johar , halfbridled , and action this day .
in 2006 mandella wrote the introduction to `` santa anita morning rhapsody '' , by photographer-author karen s. davis , a book documenting morning thoroughbred racetrack training .
`` most people who enjoy racing do n't realize how special these early hours are , watching ... the relationship between horse and man , '' he wrote .
richard mandella lives in bradbury , california with his wife randi , son gary -lrb- also a trainer -rrb- and daughter andrea .
