Todd Pletcher
A native of Dallas, TX, Pletcher grew up around Thoroughbred racing as his father, Jake Pletcher, trained Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. After graduating from the University of Arizona with a degree in animal science, he went to work for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. He stayed with Lukas for six years, eventually becoming his main East Coast assistant trainer. He went out on his own in 1996 and has trained such top-class performers as Left Bank and Balto Star. While he has been very successful since taking out his license, 2004 was a banner year for the Pletcher stable. His starters earned $17,511,923, top in the nation by nearly $2 million, he finished fifth in terms of number of victories, and as a result was awarded the 2004 Eclipse Award for top trainer. After going winless with his first 12 Breeders' Cup starters, Pletcher won two races in the event last year: the Sprint with Speightstown, and the Distaff with Kentucky Oaks champ Ashado. Both would also go on to be Eclipse winners in their respective divisions. Pletcher’s best Derby finish was with Invisible Ink, second in 2001, and most recently a fourth place finish with Limehouse last year.
Patrick Valenzuela
Valenzuela, born October 17, 1962, in Montrose, Colorado, currently lives in Arcadia, California. Widely regarded as one of the most talented riders of any generation, Valenzuela has battled personal problems throughout his career. He comes from a family of horsemen. His father, A.C., was a jockey, as were several uncles. His cousin, Fernando, also rides in southern California. Riding on the aforementioned circuit since the late 1970's, Valenzuela was the leading apprentice in terms of wins for the 1979-1980 Santa Anita meet. He has won numerous riding title since then at Hollywood Park, Del Mar, Oak Tree, and Santa Anita. He was the youngest jockey ever, aboard Codex for Wayne Lukas, at 17, to win the Santa Anita Derby. He won the Kentucky Oaks in 1985 on Fran's Valentine and the Derby in 1989 on Sunday Silence. He also was aboard Arazi when that one rolled to his stunning victory in the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs.
Peachtree Stable
Peachtree Stables is a racing syndicate headed by John Fort, who was introduced to Thoroughbred horse racing after watchinh morning workouts at the old fairgrounds training center near his home in Columbia, SC. In 1976, Fort started a farm in South Carolina devoted to breeding and training racehorses; he also worked for Calumet Farm and assisted in the training of Alydar and Davona Dale. In 1981, Fort moved his stable to Atlanta, Ga. and adopted the name Peachtree. The stable has a string of horses with trainers Todd Pletcher and Christophe Clement. They have had one Derby starter, Wild Horses, who finished 18th in 2002.
Big 3 1/2 length upset in first graded stakes race
4.02.05
Allowance @ Gulfstream Park
3rd
Early duel cost him in the stretch
3.05.05
Maiden allowance @ Gulfstream Park
1st
Went to the front and stayed there
2.05.05
Maiden allowance @ Gulfstream Park
2nd
Good effort coming off a seven month layoff
7.05.04
Maiden allowance @ Belmont Park
4th
Even effort; race won by stablemate Vicarage
Recent Workouts
Date
Track
Distance
Time
Rank
4.17
Keeneland (fast)
5 furlongs
1:00.40 B
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Peachtree Stable's Coin Silver burst onto the Kentucky Derby scene with an emphatic victory in the Coolmore Lexington (GII) at Keeneland. The son of Anees is one of three Derby contenders trained by Todd Pletcher, the Eclipse Award-winner as America's outstanding trainer in 2004. A Derby win would be the first for Pletcher and for Peachtree Stable, a partnership that finished second in the 2001 Kentucky Derby with Invisible Ink. Jockey Patrick Valenzuela, on the other hand, knows how it feels to win the Derby's roses. He guided Sunday Silence to a memorable win over rival Easy Goer in the 1989 "Run for the Roses." Coin Silver brings a career record of 2-1-1 in five races and earnings of $232,560 into Kentucky Derby 131.
Coin Silver is by the young sire Anees, winner of the 1999 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) and two-year-old champion. He raced only six times, finishing third in the San Felipe (GII) at age three (losing to eventual Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus) before being retired due to injury. Coin Silver is from his first crop of foals. Besides the subject colt, Anees other stakes winner is Swither, who took the NATC Sorority Futurity at Delaware Park last year. To date, he has had 12 winners from 29 foals to race. Tragically, his stallion career was cut short on April 5, 2003, when he suffered a fatal injury while in his paddock at Mill Ridge Farm. The loss was indeed substantial to the breeding industry, as his ancestors included a unique mix of immortal horses such as Unbridled, Alydar, Nasrullah, Princequillo, and Buckpasser
Coin Silver is out of the Conquistador Cielo mare Beyond a Doubt. Conquistador Cielo was a brilliant racehorse who at distances from six to twelve furlongs. His blowout win in the Belmont (GI), less than a week after winning the Metropolitan (GI), propelled him to Horse of the Year honors in 1982.
A winner at age three, Beyond a Doubt has had four foals to race, all winners. Besides Coin Silver, her son Beyond Brilliant is also a stakes winner, taking six listed events at five different tracks. A durable gelding, Beyond Brilliant raced for six years, earning over $570,000. Coin Silver's second dam, Proven Right, won but just once, but counts no less than six graded stakes winners through her daughter Pamela Kay, also a stakes winner who finished third in the Arlington-Washington Lassie (GI)
Dosage Index: 1.82
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