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| Catherine Day Phillips |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 130 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 14-18-20 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $1,006,874 (223) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 10% (40%) |
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- Born: Jan. 9, 1968, Toronto, Canada
- Residence: Maple, Ontario
- Family: husband; Todd Phillips, two sons, Blake and Colton. Her father is James Day, a Sovereign Award-winning trainer, and her maternal grandparents, Charles F.W. Burns and Janet Burns operated Kingfield Farm. Her late mother, Dinny Day, trained Pax Nobiscum to win the 1983 Ohio Derby
- Education: Graduate of St. Lawrence University in New York
- Web site: http://www.tlorehorses.com/trainers/cdp/index.cfm?menuid=72
- Racing Background: She worked for her father, a gold medal-winning equestrian for Canada in 1968, when he was the private trainer for the powerful Sam-Son Farms. He conditioned multiple Grade 1 winners Dance Smartly, Sky Classic, Regal Classic, Regal Intention and Hangin on a Star. Dance Smartly won the Eclipse Award for top 3-year-old filly in 1991 and Sky Classic won the Eclipse Award for male turf horse in 1992 … When Hall of Famer Dance Smartly was retired, she was the all-time leading money-winning female … Dinny Day trained 1983 Ohio Derby winner Pax Nobiscum … Following her father's successful trail, Day Phillips competed in the show ring from an early age until she went to college. Once she graduated, she started her own stable
- Racing Career: She took out her trainer's license in 1994 with support from her maternal grandmother Janet Burns, who owned Kingfield Farms. Starting with just four homebreds, her stable has grown to more than 30 horses and she currently has 20 in training at Woodbine … In addition to her farm just north of Toronto, she set up a new 28-stall training center in Ocala, Fla. in 2003 with the advice of fellow trainer Mark Casse and the help of Tom Drier. She named it Kingfield Farms South in honor of her grandmother … In 2004, Day Phillips just missed winning Canada's Triple Crown with stable star and Canadian champion A Bit O' Gold. The horse lost the Queen's Plate by a diminishing three-quarters of a length before capturing the next two legs to become a dual classic winner. Day Phillips purchased the son of Gold Fever for $60,000 (Canadian) as a yearling. He earned more than $1.4 million and was a Sovereign Award winner and Canadian Horse of the Year for the Two Bit Racing Stable ... He finished 13th in the 2005 Breeders' Cup Classic … She became the first woman to train an G1 Arlington Million winner in 2007 thanks to Jambalaya, who had previously helped Day Phillips become the first woman to train back-to-back winners of the Breeders' Stakes – the third leg in the Canadian Triple Crown. She bought Jambalaya for the bargain price of $2,500 at the 2003 September Keeneland yearling sale and after winning the 2007 Gulfstream Park Turf, earned the first Grade 1 win for Day Phillips in the U.S. ... Her stable star in 2008 is Van Lear Rose, winner of Woodbine's G3 Mazarine Stakes and Juvenile Fillies prospect ... The Stroll filly would be the first Breeders' Cup starter for Day Phillips.
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NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.
Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
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