Ethan W. West

Ethan West took out his trainer’s license in 2018 and earned his first career stakes win July 1, 2023, with Takntothecleaners in the Opelousas Stakes at Evangeline Downs. His first graded stakes win came later that year when he won the 2023 Bryan Station Stakes in October at Keeneland with Runaway Storm.

Diamond Solitaire won a pair of stakes races for West in 2024. In 2025, he found himself on the Kentucky Derby trail with Risen Star Stakes runner-up Chunk of Gold.

Raised in Cambridge City, Indiana, he got his first exposure to horse racing through his grandparents, who had a couple of horses while he and his older brother, Aaron, were growing up. That early introduction to the sport sparked their interest and when Aaron pursued a training career, Ethan followed him to the track, learning to gallop and break young horses.