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Flint, 66, is a New Orleans native who now lives most of the year in Louisville, but winters at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His son Steven is also a trainer who worked for his dad for many years before going out on his own in 2001. Another son, Scott, is a blacksmith. The elder Flint was a New Orleans police detective for 16 years, retiring in 1976 to become a full-time trainer. He scored his first stakes win that same year. He has been leading trainer at nine different tracks throughout the central United States. He has won 19 training titles at Turfway Park alone, and has been the leading trainer in Kentucky by wins multiple times. Won his first Grade One with Outofthebox in the 2001 Super Derby. He saddled Runway Model in to a sixth-place finish in last year's Kentucky Oaks. |
Nakatani, 35, is a native of Covina, California. He was introduced to racing at age 16 by his father, who was a Japanese-American born in a WWII internment camp and spent time at Santa Anita when it was a relocation camp. Corey began galloping and breaking horses for the legendary Johnny Longden, and began riding in 1988 at Caliente Racetrack, moving to Southern California the next year. He has been a fixture on the southern California circuit since, winning riding titles at Santa Anita, Hollywood, Del Mar and Oak Tree. While he hasn't won the Derby in his eleven tries, he has won the Kentucky Oaks twice: 1991 on Lite Light and 1996 on Pike Place Dancer. He also teamed up with trainer Craig Dollase to win the 1998 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs with Reraise. He is married to Craig Dollase's sister Michelle. |
Dr. Chowhan is a native of Pakistan who grew up around horses before moving to the Caribbean to study medicine. He became a United States citizen in 1987, living in Washington D.C. and New York before moving to his current home in southern Indiana, where he is a partner in a private oncology practice. Chowhan has been involved in racing for about seven years. His very first horse, Deep Gold, won the Deputy Minister Handicap at Gulfstream Park. He has a small band of broodmares at his Floyds Knobs home. Like his broodmare band, Chowhan has a small number of racehorses, all with trainer Bernie Flint, who has been with him since the beginning with Deep Gold. Chowhan also campaigned the multiple stakes winner Keepondealing and bred the Grade One winner Awesome Humor and 2005 Kentucky Oaks sixth-place finisher Runway Model. |
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04.27.06 - Red Cherries Spin breezes five furlongs on the turf
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DRF Past Performances
Next Race: 05.05 Kentucky Oaks (GI)
Future Wager Odds
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3 |
04.06-09 |
24* |
12-1 |
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03.02-05 |
24* |
9-2 |
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01.26-29 |
24* |
7-2 |
* = Part of the mutuel field
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Race History :: Graded Earnings: $0 - Race Record: 4-3-0-1
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04.15.06 |
Claiming $75,000 @ Keeneland |
1st |
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Haltered by Flint; 9 length win |
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03.08.06 |
Allowance @ Evangline Downs |
1st |
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Easy victory; overmatched competition |
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12.22.05 |
Allowance @ Louisiana Downs |
3rd |
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Troubled trip; just missed second |
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12.12.05 |
Maiden claiming ($30K) @ Churchill Downs |
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Hand ridden in debut victory |
Recent Workouts
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04.27 |
Churchill turf |
5 furlongs (firm) |
1:01.40 B |
2/7 |
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04.05 |
Churchill |
5 furlongs (fast) |
1:01.20 B |
2/14 |
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Red Cherries Spin is a daughter of a top-class sire in With Approval. A Canadian Triple Crown winner and 1989 Horse of the Year in that country, With Approval won over $2.8 million. He also scored a victory in the Bowling Green Handicap (GII) at Belmont Park, setting a world record of 2:10.26 for 11 furlongs. A sire of 13 crops of racing age, his offspring include 39 stakes winners and two champions: Talkin' Man (in Canada) and Just Approval (Panamanian Horse of the Year). After standing stud for nine years at Brookdale Farm, With Approval was sold to Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, England in 2005.
Red Cherries Spin is out of the British bred unraced mare Lavish Gift. She has foaled two winners, including Red Cherries Spin, from three starters. Her second dam, Liaison, was a listed stakes winner in France and a sister to the Gr. II winner Two Timing. The first two female generations may be relatively modest, but the third and fourth generations are loaded with black-type runners. Social Column, third dam of Red Cherries Spin, is a sister to Chris Evert, champion 3-year-old filly; and All Rainbows, dam of 1988 Kentucky Derby champ Winning Colors. Chris Evert is the granddam of Chief's Crown, winner of 10 graded races, including the Travers (GI).
Dosage Index: 1.89.
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RED CHERRIES SPIN was claimed for $75,000 at Keeneland last out by ace claiming trainer Bernie Flint, who has long pontificated about whether it is possible or not to claim an Oaks and Derby winner. He'll get some sort of an answer here after paying big money April 15 for this daughter of With Approval. And she won by nine lengths just like their supposed to at 4-5 with a $75,000 claim slip in the box. So call it a great claim but can she win even a mediocre running of this great old race for fillies? Probably not. Her speed figures really don't stack up to the top contenders. She's never been around two turns and her Keeneland win was probably bias aided - at least the margin. Interesting idea to work her on the turf and she's doing very well by the drills and a solid physical appearance in the mornings. Just hard to think she is ready for this kind of assignment. Figures one of the longer shots in the race and it would be a major accomplishment if she brought home any kind of paycheck.
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