Rob Atras

Born in Manitoba, Canada in 1984, Atras began training in 2009. He won his first race on June 13, 2009 at Assiniboia Downs, near Winnipeg. 

Atras enjoyed success in Canada for several years, and won his first American stakes race at Turf Paradise in 2013, when he sent Flexiplus to victory in the Hasta La Vista Handicap. He later moved to the United States and was an assistant trainer for fellow Canadian Robertino Diodoro for several years. 

In 2019, Atras went back out on his own, and won his first stakes race in New York later that year with Royal Albert Hall in the Bernardini Stakes. 

Atras earned a pair of major career milestones in 2021. On Jan. 30, he won his first graded stakes race when American Power won the Grade 3 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct. On July 24 at Saratoga, he won his first grade 1 race, when Maracuja pulled the upset in the Coaching Club American Oaks, defeating Longines Kentucky Oaks winner Malathaat.