Dean's Kitten

Prep Race History

Date	Race	Grade	Distance	Finish	Chart	Video
Mar 27 2010	Lane's End Turfway Park	II	1 1/8 Mile	1	Lane'sEndStakes.pdf
Nov 7 2009	Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Santa Anita Park		One Mile	6	Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.pdf

Connections

Michael Maker

Trainer

Born in Garden City, Michigan on February 7, 1969.Father George was a trainer in Detroit.

Robby Albarado

Jockey

Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, Albarado like many other jockeys got his start at a very young age riding in races at the local “bush” tracks. He has won nearly 4,200 races in his career and was the regular rider of Horse of the Year Curlin, who finished third in the Kentucky Derby before going on to win many prestigious races like The Preakness Stakes, The Stephen Foster Handicap, The Woodward, The Breeders’ Cup Classic, and the Dubai World Cup. Other top mounts include Mineshaft, Court Vision, and Endorsement.

Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey

Owner

Both are natives of Artemus, Kentucky, but now reside on Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Kentucky.Ken held positions as an executive in the trucking business.

Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey

Breeder

Both are natives of Artemus, Kentucky, but now reside on Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Kentucky.Ken held positions as an executive in the trucking business.

Pedigree

Dean's Kitten is from the first crop of 2004 champion turf male Kitten's Joy, who was also bred and campaigned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey. Kitten's Joy won three stakes at 1 1/4 miles and beyond, including the Turf Classic Invitational (G1), Secretariat S. (G1) and Virginia Derby (G3).
Dean's Kitten is the first graded stakes winner for his sire, who has also been represented in this crop by Kentucky Jockey Club S. (G2) runner-up William's Kitten and the turf stakes winners Kera's Kitten and Lisa's Kitten.
His dam is by Ide, who reeled off five straight stakes wins including the Kentucky Jockey Club (G3) and Iroquois S. (G3) at Churchill at two and the Rebel S. and Southwest S. (G3) at three. Injury forced his retirement prior to the 1996 Kentucky Derby. Dean's Kitten is the first stakes winner produced from a daughter of Ide, whose best previous three-year-old performer was Percy Hope, who took the Lone Star Derby and Rushaway S. in 2001.
Dean's Kitten's third dam was the nine-furlong Spinster S. (G1) winner Safe, the ancestress of Brazilian Group 1 winner Links of Glory.
While 1 1/4 miles doesn't figure to cause Dean's Kitten many problems, the fact his greatest success has come on turf and synthetic rather than dirt suggests he might struggle to stay competitive over Churchill's main oval.