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| Corey Nakatani |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 405 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 38-56-58 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $2,525,121 (103) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 9% (37%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Global Hunter,
Devoted Magic,
Mr. Hot Stuff,
Itsnotjustagame,
Gorgeous Goose,
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- Height: 5’2”
- Weight: 113
- Born: Oct. 21, 1970, Covina, Calif.
- Residence: Glendora, Calif.
- Family: wife, Lisa; has three children from his previous marriage – daughter Brittany and sons Matthew and Austin.
- As of Oct. 15, 2009, Nakatani ranked among the top 100 jockeys in North America by earnings with $2,523,441. He rode 402 races with 38 winners, had a 9% win percentage, and finished in the money 38% of the time.
- Missed the 2008 Breeders' Cup with a collarbone injury, but has seven Breeders’ Cup victories including three consecutive editions of the G1 Breeder's Cup Sprint from 1996-98 (Lit de Justice, Elmhurst and Reraise). Also won the 1996 G1 Breeders' Cup Distaff (Jewel Princess), 1999 G1 Breeders' Cup Mile (Silic), 2004 G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (Sweet Catomine) and 2006 Sprint (Thor's Echo).
- Top mounts in 2009 included Global Hunter (G1 Eddie Read Stakes) and Gorgeous Goose (G3 Wilshire Handicap) ... He counts Lava Man (G1 Santa Anita H, G1 Hollywood Gold Cup), Rutherienne (G1 Del Mar Oaks), In Summation (G1 Bing Crosby H), Wanderin Boy (G3 Alysheba), Silent Name (G2 Commonwealth BC), Mistical Plan (G2 Fair Grounds Oaks), Great Hunter (G2 Robert B. Lewis), Noble Court (G2 San Vicente), Notional (G2 San Rafael), and Vacare (G2 First Lady) among his top career mounts.
- Rides the Southern California circuit with agent Ronnie Ebanks; came back from collarbone injury at the end of 2008.
- Rode four winners on the Memorial Day card May 29, 2006 at Hollywood Park to reach the 3,000-career win plateau.
- Though he has had 14 Kentucky Derby mounts, the big prize has eluded him. The closest he's come is with two fourth-place finishes. In 2008, he rode Colonel John to a sixth-place finish as the second choice ... Has won the Kentucky Oaks twice, with Lite Light in 1991 and with Pike Place Dancer in 1996.
- Tragedy hit Nakatani hard over a two-year period beginning with the death of a nephew from leukemia in the spring of 1995. His sister, Dawn, died of asphyxiation in an apparent murder in October of 1996, and his father Roy died of a heart attack in the spring of 1997.
- Moved his tack to Southern California in April 1989. Has won meet titles at Santa Anita, Hollywood, Del Mar and Oak Tree.
- After graduating from jockey school in Castaic, Calif., Nakatani began race-riding at Caliente in Mexico in the fall of 1988. Won his first race there on Blue King in a dead heat.
- A champion high school wrestler, Nakatani actually got his first glimpse of racing after a wrestling tournament. On the way home, he and his father stopped at Santa Anita to watch a couple of races. Nakatani was intrigued, and eventually approached trainer Roger Stein for work. After three days of mucking stalls and walking horses, Corey wanted to ride even though he’d never been on a horse. Stein suggested that he get some experience at a working farm. Nakatani learned the ropes on the Thoroughbred farm of agent Tony Matos, then broke and galloped horses for Johnny Longden and Longden’s son Eric.
- His late father Roy Nakatani, a Japanese American, was born in a World War II internment camp in Colorado and spent time at Santa Anita when it was a relocation camp.
- An avid golfer, Nakatani carries a three handicap.
Breeders' Cup Record| Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings | | 65 | 7 | 8 | 9 | $9,965,480 |
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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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