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| David Fawkes |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 292 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 52-46-39 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $1,706,584 (100) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 17% (46%) |
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Biography and Highlights:
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- Born: Oct. 3, 1959, Aurora, Ill.
- Residence: Davie, Fla.
- Family: wife Celia, daughter Natalie
- Racing Background: Grew up on a farm in the Chicago suburbs and became acquainted with horses through his family’s livery stock
- Racing Career: Started his career as a jockey at Arlington Park in 1976, winning with his first mount Scary Mary … Quickly outgrew riding and took out first trainer's license at age 17 … Worked as an assistant trainer in Chicago to Bernie Flint and Christine Janks before coming to Florida in mid-1990s ... Began Florida training career in 1998 with encouragement from Dr. Donald Frazier, who raced as Pyrite Stables; he trained multiple stakes winner Tour the Hive for that outfit … Said his best horse to date is Forty One Carats, winner of the Indiana Derby and Pegasus Handicap. Forty One Carats set a still-standing Calder six-furlong track record (1:08.95) winning the 2000 Smile Sprint Handicap. He earned $828,843 in his four-year campaign … Captured consecutive editions of Calder’s Memorial Day Handicap in 2004 and ’05 with Twilight Road … Has managed the career of Lord Robyn, whose biggest wins came in 2005 Tropical Park Derby and 2006 Blazing Sword Stakes … Captured the Calder’s $250,000 Distaff Turf Sprint Championship with Flying Circle … Fawkes also maintains a 12-stall barn next to his house where he cares for short-term layup runners for himself and other trainers … Based primarily at Calder, Fawkes operated a small division at Belmont … Belmont string included Take D’Tour. In 2007, that 5-year-old reached the million dollar plateau when she became just the third mare in history to win consecutive editions of the G1 Ogden Phipps Handicap (until 2002 the Hempstead Handicap) … Fawkes has never had a Breeders' Cup entrant, although Take D’Tour was pointing to the 2006 Distaff but missed the race with an illness. Rebounded to capture a pair of rich state bred races, the Elmer Heubeck Distaff (part of the Florida Millions) and the Sunshine Millions Distaff, in late 2006 and early ‘07
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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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