D. Wayne Lukas : Derby History
Hall of Fame trainer Darnell 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 41 horses in the race.
Rafael Bejarano
Bejarano, born June 23, 1982, in Peru, currently lives in Louisville. He went to the races as child in his home country, eventually attending that nation's riding school. Began riding in Peru in 1999, winning an apprentice title the same year. Came to the United States in May of 2002, beginning his U.S. riding career at River Downs in Cincinnati. While it took him about five months to win his first race, he's been a top rider on the Kentucky circuit ever since. Won the Churchill Downs 2004 Spring Meet title, as well as winning titles at Turfway Park and Ellis Park. He capped his success in 2004, when he led the nation in wins with 455, 72 more than his closest pursuer. He currently is riding in New York at Aqueduct.
Robert and Beverly Lewis : Derby History
Bob, a native of Minneapolis, Minn., and Beverly, a San Francisco, Calif. native, met in 1946 when they were attending the University of Oregon - they were married a year later. They are residents of Newport Beach, Calif., where Bob is in the beverage distributing buisness. The Lewises were recipients of an Eclipse Award of Merit in '97 for their unyielding committment and support of racing. They owned (solely or in partnership) champions Serena's Song, Timber Country, Silver Charm and Charismatic in addition to major stakes winners Orientate and Hennessy.
Pacelco SA (KY)
Pacelco SA is a Coolmore Stud based breeding organization. In addition to Consolidator, Pacelco also bred the 2004 Super Derby winner Fantasticat and the top sprinter Gold Storm.
05.01.05 - Sunday Barn Notes 04.30.05 - Saturday Barn Notes 04.29.05 - Friday Barn Notes 04.28.05 - Thursday Barn Notes 04.16.05 - High Limit, Consolidator Derby-Bound After Blue Grass Runs 04.16.05 - Bandini Earns His Way Into Derby With Blue Grass Triumph 04.10.05 - Consolidator Sparkles In Churchill Prep For Blue Grass 04.03.05 - Consolidator, Going Wild, And Bellamy Road Sharp In Churchill Downs Works 03.21.05 - Consolidator Rolls For Lewises 03.19.05 - Consolidator Impressive Upset Winner In San Felipe 02.13.05 - Longest Shot On The Board Wins San Vicente
Consolidator is a son of one of the world's all-time leading sires; Storm Cat. Storm Cat ranked fourth on the 2004 North American leading sires list in terms of earnings, with Grade One winner Storm Flag Flying his leading earner of his 19 stakes winners this past year.
The 22-year-old Overbrook stallion, who will stand for $500,000 this year, has sired 129 stakes winners to date, which is tops in the United States for active stallions. Storm Cat has been the leading juvenile sire seven times in his career, including 2004, on the strength of his two-year-old champion filly Sweet Catomine's performances. He has several promising three-year-old colts, including the stakes winners Shamardal and Storm Surge. Storm Cat's influence on the breed in the latter part of the 20th century cannot be underestimated, as he has sire champions that are proficient at virtually every age, distance and on both turf and dirt. His daughter Sardula took one of the most thrilling renewals of the Kentucky Oaks ever staged, besting Lakeway by a head.
Consolidator is out of the French-bred mare Good Example, which makes him a full brother to Mycatcandance, who won the Indian Summer Stakes at Keeneland and was third in the Sorority (GIII) at age two. Consolidator is her only foal, from five winners, to this point, to show an affinity for two-turn races. Good Example was a stakes winner at two, three, and four, the first two years in France and the latter in the United States. Good Example has several distance influences in her pedigree: two Derby winners (Shut Out and Tim Tam) can be traced to her direct tail-female line, and her grandsires are the classic distance influences Blushing Groom and Nodouble.
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