Derby Horses

Indian Charlie--Playa Maya, by Arch

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Todd Pletcher

Trainer

Pletcher won the 2010 Kentucky Derby with Super Saver. In 2011 he led all trainers in monies won with such stable stars as Stay Thirsty and Awesome Maria. He trained Rags to Riches not only to win the Kentucky Oaks in 2007, but became the first filly to take the Belmont Stakes in 102 years. He won four straight Eclipse Awards as top trainer from 2004-2007 and again in 2010. He has trained multiple Eclipse champions including Uncle Mo, Ashado, English Channel, Speighstown, Fleet Indian, Wait a While, Lawyer Ron, and Left Bank.

John Velazquez

Jockey

John Velazquez has ridden in twelve editions of the Kentucky Derby. He won the 2011 Kentucky Derby aboard Animal Kingdom. He won the 2004 Kentucky Oaks with Ashado, who would win the Eclipse Award for top Three-Year-Old filly in 2004 and in 2005 won for Top Older Female. Known as Johnny V around the racetrack, he attended a jockey school in his native Puerto Rico before coming to North America under the guidance of retired Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero. He began riding races in New York in March 1990, and is ranked amongst the leading jockeys on the circuit.

Repole Stable

Owner

Mike Repole made his fortune with the popular water drinks Vitaminwater and Smartwater under the Glaceau company which he sold to The Coca-Cola Company in 2007 for $4.1 billion dollars.Mike’s most exciting and well known racehorse to date is Uncle Mo, the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner at Churchill Downs. Uncle Mo is coming into the 2011 Derby prep race season as the top choice for Kentucky Derby 137. Mike also owns, Stay Thirsty, who was runner-up in the 2010 Grade I Hopeful Stakes.

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Pedigree

  • Balanced blend of speed and stamina suggests, but does not prove conclusively, the ability to handle 1 1/4 miles.
  • Uncle Mo was bred in Kentucky by D. Michael Cavey
  • Sire Indian Charlie remained unbeaten through the 1 1/8-mile Santa Anita Derby (G1), but could manage only third as the favorite in the 1998 Kentucky Derby (G1), and never raced again after sustaining an injury.
  • Transmits his brilliant speed to his progeny, as exemplified by Indian Blessing, the champion two-year-old filly of 2007 and champion female sprinter of 2008; Grade 2-winning sprinter Bwana Charlie, the sire of current Derby hopeful Comma to the Top; multiple Grade 3 victor Conveyance, who faded to 15th in last year's Run for the Roses; and Indian Apple Is, a finalist for a Sovereign Award as Canada's champion female sprinter of 2010.
  • Yet still capable of siring horses with greater stamina on occasion -- like Fleet Indian, the champion older mare of 2006 after romps in the 1 1/4-mile Personal Ensign S. (G1) and Delaware H. (G2); Spinster S. (G1) winner Pampered Princess; and Grade 2 scorer Two Trail Sioux.
  • Uncle Mo is the third foal out of the lightly-raced Playa Maya, who competed exclusively at around a mile and placed in stakes on both dirt and turf; her first two foals are also winners, but nowhere near the quality of Uncle Mo.
  • Much-needed dose of stamina arrives through Playa Maya's sire Arch, a blueblood who won the 1 1/4-mile Super Derby (G1) by three lengths and set a new 1 3/16-mile track record when capturing the Fayette S. (G3) at Keeneland, both in 1998.
  • Arch is the sire of reigning champion older male Blame, who stunned Zenyatta in the 1 1/4-mile Breeders' Cup Classic (G1); Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale, winner of the 2006 E.P. Taylor S. (Can-G1) over 1 1/4 miles on turf; the ill-fated Pine Island, heroine of the 1 1/4-mile Alabama S. (G1) in 2006; Prince Arch, whose signature win came in the 1 3/8-mile Gulfstream Park H. (G1), in course-record time on turf; and just to show his versatility, also a couple of sprint champions in the English-based Les Arcs and the South African Overarching.
  • Uncle Mo's female line hasn't produced much of note in recent years, with its headliners being Grade 3 winner Woods of Windsor and Peruvian champion miler Eithan, but it is a poorer offshoot of the illustrious family descending from the tap root mare Cherokee Rose II.

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