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Of the nine featured classes over five days of competition, Fellers finished either first or second in every single event." [10] Fellers began riding Flexible, an Irish Sport Horse stallion, in 2002. [11] According to the USEF Network, In 2007, Fellers and Flexible won the Los Angeles National Grand Prix CSI2...
Prendergast had his first winner in Britain in 1945 and had his first champion five years later when Windy City was the top-rated two-year-old in Ireland, Britain and France. [5] Prendergast soon became one of the leading trainers in Ireland, winning four Irish classics between 1950 and 1952. [ 3 ]
25 November 1961 - Reys' best day's riding in Victoria in his racing career. He rode five winners in one afternoon at Moe. [2] 1962 Reys won the Oaks Stakes at Flemington on Arctic Star - she was in Ray Hutchins' stable, for whom Reys was the stable rider. [2] 15 June 1963 - At Moonee Valley Reys rode four winners. [2]
By now, he was riding at 6st, but weight was becoming a problem. For the Cesarewitch Handicap, he failed to make a riding weight of 6st 1 lb, putting up 3 lbs overweight and losing by a neck. Archer blamed wasting for taking his strength away. [11] Spinaway was the star filly of the following season, winning the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks double.
Johnson was hired by prominent owner/breeder Willis Sharpe Kilmer, whose racing stable had included Sun Briar and Exterminator. Riding for Kilmer brought Albert Johnson rode Exterminator to a number of important wins and ended 1922 as the United States Champion Jockey by earnings. [5] In all, Albert Johnson won four American Classic Races.
By age 20, he had developed a reputation as a trainer and was hired by other trainers to run their stables. [2] His first winner was Flipper Star at Rillito Park on January 28, 1979. In the 1980s, Baffert moved to California and worked at Los Alamitos Race Course, where he switched to training Thoroughbreds full-time in 1991.
Black Tarquin was a dark brown, almost black [1] horse with a white star bred in the United States by his owner William Woodward Sr. He was the most successful horse sired by the British-bred Rhodes Scholar, who won the Eclipse Stakes in 1936 and was exported to America in 1940.
McKinzie is sired by 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and out of the graded stakes winning Petionville mare Runway Model. Through his dam, McKinzie is a descendant of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and was born at Summer Wind Farm in Georgetown Kentucky, home of, among others Littleprincessemma, Careless Jewel, and Eblouissante, a half sister to Zenyatta.