Peter Wasiluk, Jr. has had an exceptional 2007-2008 Tampa Bay Downs meeting, and on January 26 he saddled three winners and one second-place finisher from four starters.  One of Wasiluk’s winners took home the filly and mare division of the first leg of the Tampa Turf Test series; his second-place finisher on that afternoon was in the male division of the Turf Test. 

Peter Wasiluk, Jr. began his love affair with horses at an early age, when his father, Peter Wasiluk, Sr., would take him to the races.  “My father used to take me to DelawarePark when I was a kid, because that was the only track that would let kids in,” says Wasiluk about his early memories of the races.  Wasiluk first took out a trainer's license in Keystone Racetrack (now PhiladelphiaPark) in 1982; it was in that year at Keystone that Wasiluk saddled his first career winner, Chance Reason.

Wasiluk says that his favorite horse that he’s trained in his career is Tunbridge Wells because, “he was a very nice horse that could go long, short, grass, or dirt.  We took him all over the place.  He ran in stakes and always gave a good account of himself.  He ran well for us for three or four years. It was really our first horse that we could run anywhere with and run well.”

Wasiluk lives in Oldsmar, and his entire family is involved in their twenty-five horse barn on the Tampa Bay Downs backside. His wife Sharyn helps with training in the morning, as does his daughter Jaclyn; his son Philip helps Wasiluk in his stable and is also an owner of Thoroughbreds.  When he’s not training horses, Peter Wasiluk says that he enjoys playing cards in the Silks Poker Room.