Dane Kobiskie

Birth Date: January 03, 1979
Birth Place: Wichita, Kansas

STATISTICS: STARTS 1st 2nd 3rd MONEY
2014 205 42 35 25 $1,071,196
CAREER 1,956,460,349,272 418 314 247 $8,290,075
2014 SEASON: finished 14th in the local standings with 26 victories…captured the Stormy Blues Stakes with Not One Purr Too…Our Epiphany won the Hilltop Stakes.
 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: topped the local standings in 2011 with 58 victories, winning the Laurel Park winter meeting training title… finished second in the 2012 local standings with 67 victories…captured the Laurel Park winter title, winning 34 races from 81 starters, an impressive 42% rate…won the Timonium training title in 2010 with 10 wins from just 22 starters, which included a career-best four win afternoon on closing day…retired as a jockey in Feb. 2008 and saddled his first winner (Yacht Man) for PTK LLC on Mar. 30 at Laurel Park…saddled a pair of winners on April 3 and November 12…rode and saddled Citi Charisse to a stakes win at Colonial Downs in his final mount…finished his riding career with 290 wins and nearly $5.4 million in earnings…visited the winners’ circle 153 times at Pimlico and Laurel Park, including 83 in 2006…arrived in Maryland in November 2005 after starting his riding career in Kentucky where he won the Turfway Park summer riding title …had multiple four-win days at both Turfway and Ellis Park…rode his first winner at Churchill Downs on June 22, 2005 aboard Candyland Flowers.
 
PERSONAL: galloped horses for Dallas Stewart, John Ward and Todd Pletcher and worked for Michael Pino and Steve Asmussen as an exercise rider before becoming a rider.