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| Darrell Vienna |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 99 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 16-18-10 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $843,414 (266) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 16% (44%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Magnum,
Medici Code,
Feisty Suances,
Santamonicacanyon,
Ocean Cracker,
Adam Suances |
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Biography and Highlights:
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Born: Sept. 27, 1946 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Resident: Sierra Madre, Calif.
Family: wife Kristen, children Christopher (now working as an assistant for his father) and Remy
Principal business: Lawyer and writer
Education: Obtained a law degree from Loyola Law School and a psychology degree from UCLA
An essayist and poet, he also co-wrote a script for the television series "Hill Street Blues"
Obtained his trainer's license in 1976
Began practicing law in 1994. Gave up practicing law full-time in 1997 to devote his time to training
Former professional rodeo rider and show horse trainer
First stakes winner was Sure Fire in the 1977 Aprisa Handicap at Pomona
Best horse was Gilded Time, winner of the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Gilded Time, an $80,000 purchase, went on to earn $855,890 and was a perfect four-for-four as a two-year-old. He earned the 1992 Eclipse Award as Champion juvenile. Gilded Time also finished third in the 1993 Breeders' Cup Sprint--his first start that year. He has had 12 other Breeders' Cup starters, most recently Disturbingthepeace and Nuclear Debate, both off the board in 2002.
Vienna is the trainer of three former world record holders--Native Passer, Classy Women and Finder's Fortune. Native Passer set the 6 fi-furlong record (1:13 3/5) at Del Mar in 1988; Classy Women covered the 5 1/2-furlong distance in 1:01 at Hollywood Park in 1991; and Finder's Fortune went 7 1/2 furlongs in 1:26 4/5 at Hollywood Park in 1993
Has had success turning European horses into stakes winners in the United States: Janet, a winner of multiple stakes races including Grade I wins in the Ramona Handicap at Del Mar and the Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Oak Tree, both in 2001, has earned $1,027,250; and Suances, a Group 1 winner from France, won the 2002 San Francisco Breeders' Cup Mile Handicap
Disturbingthepeace, a four-year-old California-bred gelding won six straight races, including the Pat O'Brien, the Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup and the Triple Bend Breeders' Cup Handicaps. Disturbingthepeace was supplemented to the Sprint for $90,000 by owners David and Rita Milch.
Other multiple stakes winners include Above Perfection, Awesome Daze, Echo Eddie, Star Parade, Fly Til Dawn, Joey Franco, Golden Klair, Queen of Wilshire and Mountain Bear.
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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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