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Hall of Fame trainer Wayne Lukas grew up outside a small farming community in Wisconsin. He earned a Master's Degree in Physical Education at the University of Wisconsin. He began training horses in South Dakota, and then settled in California in 1972. He trained quarter horses there for six years, then began training Thoroughbreds in 1978. He is the most successful trainer in the history of the Breeders' Cup, has trained a record 22 Eclipse champions, has won four leading trainer Eclipse awards, and has saddled the winners of more than 550 graded stakes. He has won 13 Triple Crown races and was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1999. Like many basketball coaches and their assistants, many of his former aides have gone on to successful training careers, including Todd Pletcher, Dallas Stewart, Kiaran McLaughlin, and Mark Hennig. He has won four Kentucky Derbys, tied for second with H. J. Johnson and behind only six-time winner Ben A. Jones, and has started a record 42 horses in the race. |
Edgar Prado is a native of Lima, Peru and hails from a racing family - his father is a trainer and two of his eight brothers are jockeys. He dominated the Maryland racing scene for years with multiple riding titles at both Laurel and Pimlico, but in the summer of 1999 decided to shift his tack to New York. He won 1,000 races over a two-year span in 1997-1998, to join Chris McCarron and Kent Desormeaux as the only riders to accomplish that feat and led the nation in wins with 536 in '97, 474 in '98, and 402 in '99. He was second nationally in earnings last year, when his mounts won over $18 million for the second consecutive year. He also won 299 race in 2005, finishing in seventh nationally while winning at a 20% clip. Prado won the Kentucky Oaks in 2003 on Bird Town and the Belmont twice: Birdstone (2004) and Sarava (2002). He has ridden in the past six Derbies, with his best finish a third on Peace Rules in 2003. |
Bob recently passed away due to heart failure at his Newport Beach, Calif, residence on February 17. He was 81. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Bob, along with wife Beverly - a San Francisco, Calif. native, met in 1946 when they were attending the University of Oregon. The two were married a year later. Beverly is a resident of Newport Beach, Calif.
Bob owned and operated the Foothill Beverage Company, southern California's second largest beer distributorship, since 1956. They have been racing fans for nearly 60 years, even attending the races at Santa Anita during their 1947 honeymoon. They became active in racing and breeding in 1990, achieving amazing success in the past 15 years, primarily with trainers Wayne Lukas and Bob Baffert. They owned (solely or in partnership) champions Serena's Song ('95 3-year-old female), Timber Country ('94 2-year-old male), Silver Charm ('97 3-year-old male), Charismatic ('99 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year), Orientate ('02 sprinter), and most recently Folklore ('05 2-year-old filly) in addition to major stakes winners Commendable and Hennessy. The Lewises were recipients of an Eclipse Award of Merit in '97 for their unyielding committment and support of racing. |
Bob recently passed away due to heart failure at his Newport Beach, Calif, residence on February 17. He was 81. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Bob, along with wife Beverly - a San Francisco, Calif. native, met in 1946 when they were attending the University of Oregon. The two were married a year later. Beverly is a resident of Newport Beach, Calif.
Bob owned and operated the Foothill Beverage Company, southern California's second largest beer distributorship, since 1956. They have been racing fans for nearly 60 years, even attending the races at Santa Anita during their 1947 honeymoon. They became active in racing and breeding in 1990, achieving amazing success in the past 15 years, primarily with trainers Wayne Lukas and Bob Baffert. They owned (solely or in partnership) champions Serena's Song ('95 3-year-old female), Timber Country ('94 2-year-old male), Silver Charm ('97 3-year-old male), Charismatic ('99 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year), Orientate ('02 sprinter), and most recently Folklore ('05 2-year-old filly) in addition to major stakes winners Commendable and Hennessy. The Lewises were recipients of an Eclipse Award of Merit in '97 for their unyielding committment and support of racing. |
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03.05.06 - "All Others" Favored Over Wild Fit, Balance, Champion Folklore In Pool 2 Of Kentucky Oaks Future Wager
01.16.06 - Dance Daily Springs The Upset Over Stablemate Folklore In Santa Ynez
01.13.06 - Folklore Draws Post 4 For The January 16 Santa Ynez (GII)
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DRF Past Performances
Next Race: TBA
Future Wager Odds
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03.02-05 |
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9-1 |
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01.26-29 |
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6-1 |
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Race History :: Graded Earnings: $889,200 (as of 01.17.06) - Race Record: 8-4-3-1
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01.16.06 |
Santa Ynez (GII) |
3rd |
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Sprinting not her game |
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10.29.05 |
BC Juvenile Fillies (GI) |
1st |
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Disproved any doubters |
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09.17.05 |
Matron (GI) |
1st |
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Crushed overmatched group |
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08.26.05 |
Spinaway (GI) |
2nd |
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Couldn't quite catch Adieu |
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07.27.05 |
Adirondack (GII) |
1st |
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Stalked pace, came on late |
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07.03.05 |
Astoria @ Belmont |
2nd |
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Good try in first stakes outing |
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06.03.05 |
Maiden Special Weight @ Belmont |
1st |
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05.18.05 |
Maiden Special Weight @ Belmont |
2nd |
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Recent Workouts
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01.06 |
Santa Anita |
5 furlongs (fast) |
1:01.40 H |
22/83 |
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Folklore is a daughter of the 2005 leading first-crop sire Tiznow, the only dual Breeders' Cup Classic (GI) winner to date. Tiznow did not start at age two, but rewarded his connections' patience the following two years. At three, he won the aforementioned Breeders' Cup as well as the Super Derby (GI), the Goodwood Breeders' Cup (GII) and the Affirmed Handicap (GII) on the way to being voted champion three-year-old and Horse of the Year. Success continued the following year: he took the Santa Anita Handicap (GI), the San Fernando Breeders' Cup (GII), and the Breeders' Cup once again, earning champion older male honors. Retired following his four-year-old season, he finished with a 8-4-2 slate from 15 starts, earning over $6.4 million. Noted by Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron as the, "best horse I ever rode", Tiznow entered stud at WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY. Folklore, his only stakes winner of 2005, was one of 10 winners from his first crop as of this writing.
Like her sire, Folklore has also gotten her dam Contrive off to a great start as a broodmare. A daughter of Storm Cat, Contrive sold for $825,000 at the 1999 Keenland July yearling sale. She never made it to the races, but has a half brother that was minor stakes placed on the turf in France. While Contrive's auction sale price is somewhat surely derived from her sire's reputation, the importance of her dam, Jeano, cannot be overlooked. Jeano raced 49 times in the early '90's, earning nearly $440,000. She was particularly fond of Keeneland, winning the Thoroughbred Club of America (GIII), and two runnings of the Doubledogdare. More recently, Contrive sold this past November, once again at Keeneland, this time for a price of $3 million to the Darley Stud group.
Folklore is inbred to two of the top stallions in the latter part of the 20th century: Northern Dancer, the 1964 Derby winner and probably the most influential stallion of the 1900's, and In Reality, who appears in the fourth generation of both the tail male and female line of Folklore's pedigree.
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