Joe Sharp
$12,248,807
2026 earnings
19%
2026 wins
$65,940,997
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2026 Stats
Career Stats
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159
Firsts
1,222
138
Seconds
1,027
106
Thirds
846
439
Unplaced
3,740
842
Starts
6,835
$12,248,807
Earnings
$65,940,997
$14,547
Earnings / Start
$9,648
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Bio
Joe Sharp took out his trainer's license in 2014 and picked up his first stakes victory in February 2015 at Louisiana Downs with One King's Man. Sharp earned his first graded stakes win later that year when Sandbar won the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap. He finished fourth with his first Breeders' Cup runner, Sapphire Kitten, who competed in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
In spring 2017, Sharp campaigned his first major Kentucky Derby contender in Risen Star Stakes and Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby winner Girvin.
Joe Sharp took out his trainer's license in 2014 and picked up his first stakes victory in February 2015 at Louisiana Downs with One King's Man. Sharp earned his first graded stakes win later that year when Sandbar won the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap. He finished fourth with his first Breeders' Cup runner, Sapphire Kitten, who competed in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
In spring 2017, Sharp campaigned his first major Kentucky Derby contender in Risen Star Stakes and Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby winner Girvin.
Sharp, who served as an assistant to Mike Maker before going out on his own, is married to retired jockey Rosie Napravnik.
