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| Julio Canani |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 186 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 49-27-20 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $2,173,624 (65) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 26% (51%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Spring House,
Lady Lumberjack,
The Pamplemousse,
Anabaa's Creation,
Porto Marmay,
Dreamalong |
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Biography and Highlights:
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- Born: Nov. 13, 1938, Oxampampa, Peru
- Residence: Pasadena, Calif.
- Family: wife, Svetlana; daughters, Isabella and Lisa and sons, Alexsander and Nick, who also is a trainer
- Racing Background: Canani first walked hots as a youngster in Peru, but he left home at age 16 during political unrest ... Came to the United States, first to Hartford, Conn., where he was fired after one day on the job as a gardener. “I also washed dishes and cleaned offices,” Canani said … He moved to California in Dec. 1963, finding work pumping gas in Hollywood ... “I wanted to be an actor, but nobody discovered me,” he said. Years later he appeared in episodes of "Deadwood" and "NYPD Blue" when he trained for television producer David Milch … Canani’s next job was hot walking horses for trainer A.T. (Tommy) Doyle at Southern California tracks ... He took out his trainer’s license in 1968
- Racing Career: Canani looked like he might have been bound for the G1 Kentucky Derby in 2009 with The Pamplemousse, who won the G3 Sham and G3 San Rafael Stakes at Santa Anita. But an injury sidelined the colt the morning of the Santa Anita Derby … With Spring House he won the 2009 G2 San Luis Obispo Handicap, G2 Del Mar Handicap (for the second consecutive time), and G3 Golden Gate Fields’ Turf Stakes … Canani hopes to better Spring House's ninth place finish in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Turf in ’09 ... Also saddled G3 Affirmed Handicap winner Two Step Salsa to a third-place finish in the ’08 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile ... Had success claiming horses and turning them into major stakes winners, notably Davie’s Lamb, Silver Circus, Ladies Din and Wilmar ... On his 50th birthday, saddled first Grade 1 winner, Silver Circus, in the 1988 Hollywood Derby ... Won 1989 G1 Santa Anita Handicap with Martial Law, a 51-1 longshot and the second-longest-priced Big ’Cap winner in the history of the race ... Gave Bill Shoemaker a leg up on Patchy Groundfog on Feb. 3, 1990, at Santa Anita in the “Legend’s Last Ride” in which the former all-time leading jockey finished fourth ... Took a break from training after Hollywood Park’s 1993 spring/summer meeting and returned for the 1997 spring/summer meet ... Two of his three Breeders’ Cup winners have come in the Mile: Silic (1999) and Val Royal (2001); the other was Sweet Catomine, winner of the 2004 Juvenile Fillies. Sweet Catomine was named 2-year-old champion filly for 2004 and went on to win the 2005 Santa Anita Oaks, then was retired following a fifth-place finish in the Santa Anita Derby … Also trained Amorama, winner of the 2005 John C. Mabee and 2004 Del Mar Oaks; Special Ring, back-to-back Eddie Read winner in 2003 and ’04; and Drake’s Victory, 2005 Cal Cup Mile winner ... Other notable stakes winners include Tranquility Lake, Regal Thunder, Hyperbaric, Caffe Latte, Astarabad, Brujo, Patchy Groundfog, Putting, Maria Jess, Tuzla, Nazirali and Blackdoun.
Breeders' Cup Record| Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings | | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | $1,792,720 |
| 1990 | Mile | Colway Rally | 13th | | 1999 | Filly & Mare Turf | Caffe Latte (IRE) | 4th | | | Mile | Silic (FR) | 1st | | | Sprint | Regal Thunder | 8th | | 2000 | Filly & Mare Turf | Tranquility Lake | 8th | | | Mile | Ladies Din | 8th | | 2001 | Distaff | Tranquility Lake | 9th | | | Mile | Val Royal (FR) | 1st | | 2003 | Mile | Special Ring | 8th | | 2004 | Juvenile Fillies | Sweet Catomine | 1st | | | Mile | Blackdoun (FR) | 7th | | | Mile | Special Ring | 13th | | 2008 | Dirt Mile | Two Step Salsa | 3rd | | | Turf | Spring House | 9th |
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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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