Churchill Downs Debutante Stakes
Winners since 1995
Table:
Year

Winner

Jockey

Trainer

Owner

Time

2017

Sunny Skies

Robby Albarado

Kenneth G. McPeek

Normandy Farm

1:11.83

2016

Pretty City Dancer

Julien Leparoux

Mark Casse

John C. Oxley

1:11.01

2015

Cosmic Evolution

Calvin H. Borel

Lon Wiggins

Stephen L. Fidel

1:11.89

2014

Promise Me Silver

Robby Albarado

Bret Calhoun

Robert Luttrell

1.11.49

2013

Fiftyshadesofgold

Corey Lanerie

Clarence Scharbauer Jr.

Clarence Scharbauer Jr.

1.10.63

2012

Blueeyesintherein

Leandro Goncalves

Gary Simms

Self/King/Morgenson/Travis, et al.

1:11.71

2011

Flashy Lassie

Kent Desormeaux

Gary Simms

Barry L. King

1:10.89

2010

Just Louise

Robby Albarado

Dale Romans

Eldon Farm Equine

1:11.85

2009

Decelerator

Julien Leparoux

D. Wayne Lukas

Westrock Stables

1:11.28

2008

Garden District

Robby Albarado

Todd A. Pletcher

Twin Creeks Racing Stable

1:11.07

2007

Rated Fiesty

Shaun Bridgmohan

Steve Asmussen

Heiligbrodt Racing et al.

1:09.27

2006

Richwoman

Shaun Bridgmohan

Steve Asmussen

Heiligbrodt Racing

1:10.50

2005

Effectual

Robby Albarado

Steve Asmussen

Gainesway/George Bolton

1:03.95

2004

Classic Elegance

Pat Day

D. Wayne Lukas

Bob & Beverly Lewis

1:04.18

2003

Be Gentle

Cornelio Velasquez

D. Wayne Lukas

Thomas F. Van Meter II

1:03.96

2002

Awesome Humor

Pat Day

W. Elliott Walden

WinStar Farm

1:03.45

2001

Cashier's Dream

Donnie Meche

Steve Asmussen

Team Valor

1:02.52

2000

Gold Mover

Craig Perret

Mark A. Hennig

Edward P. Evans

1:03.79

1999

Chilukki

Willie Martinez

Bob Baffert

Stonerside Stable

1:03.66

1998

Silverbulletday

Gary Stevens

Bob Baffert

Michael E. Pegram

1:04.70

Leveraging the tabular data as well as the passages provided at the end.

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Robby J. Albarado ( born September 11 , 1973 , in Lafayette , Louisiana ) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey . He began riding at the age of 10 and progressed to riding at bush tracks in his native Louisiana by the age of 12 . After turning professional , he earned his first official win at Evangeline Downs in 1990 . Since then , he has won more than 5,000 races , but his career has endured setbacks as a result of serious injuries . During 1998 and 1999 , he suffered two skull fractures , one of which required doctors to replace a damaged portion of his skull with titanium mesh and polymer plate . Another serious accident in the fall of 2000 kept him out of racing for the better part of 2001 .
Kenneth G. McPeek ( born August 2 , 1962 in Fort Chaffee , Arkansas ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer .
Julien R. Leparoux ( born July 15 , 1983 in Senlis , Oise , France ) is an Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States . He has won seven Breeders ' Cup races , including the 2015 Breeders ' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare Tepin and the 2016 Breeders ' Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire .
Mark E. Casse ( born February 14 , 1961 ) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include 2015 American champion turf mare Tepin and Canadian Horses of the Year Sealy Hill ( 2007 ) , Uncaptured ( 2012 ) , Lexie Lou ( 2014 ) , Catch A Glimpse ( 2015 ) and Wonder Gadot . He has won eleven Sovereign Awards for outstanding trainer in Canada and has been the leading trainer at Woodbine Racetrack 14 times . In 2019 , he won his first American Classic with War of Will in the Preakness Stakes .
John C. Oxley , a.k.a . Jack , ( born 1937 ) is an American oilman , horse breeder and polo player .
Calvin H. Borel ( born November 7 , 1966 ) is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby , the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby . His 2009 Derby win with Mine That Bird was the second biggest upset in Derby history , and Borel 's winning margin of ​6 3⁄4 lengths was the greatest in Derby history since Assault won by 8 lengths in 1946 . On May 1 , 2009 , Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard Rachel Alexandra , only the second time since 1993 that a jockey has won the Oaks-Derby combo , and just the seventh time overall a jockey has accomplished this feat in the same year . On May 16 , 2009 , Borel won the 2009 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico with thoroughbred filly Rachel Alexandra . In doing so , Borel became the first jockey to win the first two jewels of the Triple Crown on different mounts . Borel 's nickname is Bo'rail ' due to his penchant for riding close to the rail to save ground .
W. Bret Calhoun ( born May 12 , 1964 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . The son of a school teacher who also owned and trained horses , he attended Texas Tech University but left before graduating . Calhoun began his professional training career in 1993 and earned his first win on April 1 , 1994 . He has competed regularly at Louisiana Downs and Fair Grounds Race Course in Louisiana and in Texas at Sam Houston Race Park , Oklahoma City 's Remington Park , and Lone Star Park . In Kentucky in 2008 , Calhoun won the Aegon Turf Sprint Stakes at Churchill Downs and the Grade I Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland Race Course with Mr. Nightlinger . In 2008 , Bret Calhoun finished fourth in total wins for the year among all trainers in the United States . His horses won 228 races and earned $ 5,226,163 .
The Robert Luttrell who settled on the banks of the Liffey near Dublin at Luttrellstown , was in 1226 treasurer of St. Patrick 's Cathedral , and in 1236 was Lord Chancellor of Ireland . There is mention of a Michael Luttrell in 1287 , who owned the same estate at the close of the century , and later in 1349 of a Simon Luttrell , who died in the possession of the property . The next owner whose name we have is Robert Luttrell , who married a daughter of Sir Elias de Ashbourne , of Devon , England , and by this marriage added materially to his already large estate . It is not certain whether the head of the Irish branch was a son or a brother of Sir Geoffrey , but it is reasonable that he bore either the one or the other relation , for the reason that the lands of Luttrellstown secured by royal grant by Sir Geoffrey were from this time ( of Geoffrey 's death ) owned by Sir Robert Luttrell , head of the Irish branch , who lived at Lucan , near Dublin , and that it remained in the family until the early part of the nineteenth century .
Corey James Lanerie ( born November 13 , 1974 ) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing . Based in Kentucky , he has been the leading rider at Churchill Downs , having won the most races during a race meet , 10 times . He has also been named the leading rider at Ellis Park , Lone Star Park , Sam Houston Race Park and Retama Park . Lanerie was born in Lafayette , Louisiana . His father had been a jockey before becoming a horse trainer , and Lanerie 's grandfather also was a trainer . When Lanerie was nine years old , he began exercising race horses . He learned race riding at a farm near Opelousas and started his jockey career at small unrecognized tracks . He began to ride professionally in 1991 , and won his first race on April 19 of that year at Evangeline Downs on a horse named High Hopes Banquet . He won his first stakes race the following year in the Black Gold Stakes at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans , Louisiana . Lanerie 's first graded stakes race win was the Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park in 1999 . Lanerie falls within a tradition of Cajun jockeys who developed their riding skills in their home state prior to achieving success at major tracks , and follows in the footsteps of other Louisiana natives such as Calvin Borel , Kent Desormeaux , and Eddie Delahoussaye , each of whom was inducted into the Horse Racing Hall of Fame . Lanerie won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 2004 , an honor bestowed upon him by a vote of his fellow jockeys .
Clarence Scharbauer Jr. ( 1925-2014 ) was an American rancher , oilman , banker , horse breeder and philanthropist . He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and the Horse Racing Hall of Fame .
Kent Jason Desormeaux ( born February 27 , 1970 ) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year with 598 wins in 1989 . He has won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes three times each , and the Belmont Stakes once . Aboard Real Quiet , he lost the 1998 Triple Crown by a nose .
Dale L. Romans ( born August 14 , 1966 in Louisville , Kentucky ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer , best known for winning the 2011 Preakness Stakes with Shackleford and the Breeders ' Cup Turf with Little Mike . He also upset American Pharoah in the 2015 Travers Stakes with Keen Ice . He won the 2012 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer .
Darrell Wayne Lukas ( born September 2 , 1935 in Antigo , Wisconsin ) is an American horse trainer and a U.S . Racing Hall of Fame inductee . He has won twenty Breeders ' Cup races , received five Eclipse Awards for his accomplishments , and his horses have won 25 year-end Eclipse Awards . He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2007 .
Todd Pletcher ( born June 26 , 1967 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American thoroughbred horse trainer . He won the Eclipse Award seven times as Trainer of the Year , four of these in consecutive years . His horses Super Saver ( 2010 ) and Always Dreaming ( 2017 ) won the Kentucky Derby . He also won the Belmont Stakes with Rags to Riches ( 2007 ) , Palace Malice ( 2013 ) and Tapwrit ( 2017 ) .
Shaun Xavier Bridgmohan ( born June 24 , 1979 in Spanish Town , Jamaica ) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing . At age thirteen , Bridgmohan 's family emigrated to the United States , settling in South Florida where he developed an interest in horse racing . Before becoming a jockey , and while still in school , he worked at a Florida racetrack as a hot walker , groom , and as an exercise rider . After graduating from high school he pursued a riding career and in August 1997 earned his first win at Calder Race Course . Six months later on February 15 , 1998 he won six races on a single card at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens , New York , finishing 1998 , which was his breakout year , as the winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey . On December 22 , 2007 he again won six races on a single card , this time at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans , Louisiana . On April 1 , 2017 he recorded his 3,000th win .
Steven Mark Asmussen ( born November 18 , 1965 ) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . He is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2016 . His horses have won the Breeders ' Cup Classic , Preakness Stakes , Belmont Stakes , Breeders ' Cup Distaff , Kentucky Oaks and Dubai World Cup .
Gainesway Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding business in Lexington , Kentucky . It was originally called Greentree Farms . The 1,500 acre ( 6 km² ) property has been home to stallions such as Youth and Exceller and numerous others who are buried on the property . Among the current stallion roster is Tapit , sire of 4 Breeders ' Cup winners since 2008 and 2013 Leading U.S.-based Yearling Sire . In 1995 , under the name Gainesway Stable , owner Graham Beck partnered with Robert and Beverly Lewis and William T. Young of Overbrook Farm in the ownership and racing of Timber Country who won the 1994 Breeders ' Cup Juvenile and 1995 Preakness Stakes .
Patrick Alan Day ( born October 13 , 1953 in Brush , Colorado ) is an American jockey . He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 . Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985 , given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct . In 1995 , he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship . Some critics said Day was a big fish in a small pond because the majority of his wins and all of his riding titles were in the Midwest . Day did n't win any riding titles in California , New York or Florida , when he was facing the best jockey competition while riding on a daily basis .
Robert B . Bob Lewis ( May 12 , 1924 - February 17 , 2006 ) was an American businessman who owned a number of champion Thoroughbred racehorses during the 1990s and 2000s .
Cornelio H. Velásquez ( born September 28 , 1968 in Panama City , Panama ) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing . He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen by trainer Carlos Salazar Guardia in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school . In his first year of racing he was his country 's top apprentice jockey and was the leading rider again in 1994 and 1995 . In 1996 Cornelio Velasquez emigrated to the United States to race at Elmont , New York 's Belmont Park . During the ensuing ten years he competed at meets at tracks in Kentucky and Florida , winning several riding titles . His big break came in 2003 when he won his first Breeders ' Cup on Cajun Beat in the Breeders ' Cup Sprint . A two-time winner of Breeders ' Cup races , in 2005 Velasquez rode Closing Argument to a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby and in 2007 is scheduled to compete on the well-regarded colt , Nobiz Like Shobiz .
W. Elliott Walden ( born February 10 , 1963 in Lexington , Kentucky ) is the President and CEO of racing operations for WinStar Farm near Versailles , Kentucky and a former Thoroughbred racehorse trainer .
WinStar Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm near Versailles , Kentucky , owned by Kenny Troutt . It is the owner of Justify , winner of the 2018 Triple Crown , along with Super Saver , winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby ; Drosselmeyer , winner of the 2010 Belmont Stakes ; and Creator , winner of the 2016 Belmont Stakes . It stands several notable stallions , including Tiznow , Distorted Humor and Pioneerof the Nile , sire of American Pharoah . WinStar Farm won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner in 2010 and also won the Outstanding Breeder award in 2016 .
Donnie James Meche ( born October 10 , 1974 in Rayne , Louisiana ) is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing . Donnie Meche won his first race at Evangeline Downs in May 1993 . He was the top apprentice rider at Louisiana Downs in 1994 . He is ten minutes younger than twin brother Lonnie , who , along with younger brother Cody , is also a jockey .
Under the guidance of stable manager Barry Irwin , the racing stable has campaigned 16 International Champions and Highweights :
Craig Perret ( born February 2 , 1951 , in New Orleans , Louisiana ) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey . He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races . At age fifteen he began his career in thoroughbred racing and in 1967 was the leading apprentice jockey in the United States in terms of money won . In 1987 Perret rode Bet Twice to victory in the Belmont Stakes . In 1990 , aboard Unbridled , he won the Kentucky Derby , and in 1993-94 won back-to-back Queen 's Plates , Canada 's most prestigious race . In addition , Perret won the Breeders ' Cup Sprint in 1984 and 1990 ; the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile in 1989 ; and the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1996 . Of his more than 4,400 career victories to date , he has also had major stakes race wins including the Florida Derby , Acorn Stakes , Pimlico Special , Travers Stakes , Haskell Invitational Handicap and the Wood Memorial Stakes . He has earned a number of other accolades including the 1990 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey of the year , and in 1998 his peers voted him the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award . Craig Perret and his family live on a farm in Shelbyville , Kentucky and operate a small full-breed breeding operation . In 1994 , Craig Perret was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame and in 2006 into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame . In 2006 he was also nominated for induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame , and was officially inducted in 2019 .
Mark A. Hennig ( born April 10 , 1965 in Mansfield , Ohio ) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer .
Edward P. Evans , also known as Ned Evans , ( January 31 , 1942 - December 31 , 2010 ) was an American heir , businessman , investor , horse breeder and philanthropist . He was the chairman and CEO of Macmillan Publishers from 1979 to 1989 . He was the owner of Spring Hill Farm , a horse farm in Fauquier County , Virginia . He is the namesake of Edward P. Evans Hall , the main building at the Yale School of Management .
Chilukki ( 1997-2007 ) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse , who during her racing career set two track records at Churchill Downs . She was bred in Kentucky by Dr. R. Smiser West and U.S . Racing Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller .
Willie Martinez ( born March 3 , 1971 ) is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing . Martinez is known in the business as Chillie Willie , because of his chill demeanor in riding .
Robert A. Baffert ( born January 13 , 1953 ) is an American racehorse trainer who trained the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify . Baffert 's horses have won five Kentucky Derbies , seven Preakness Stakes , three Belmont Stakes and three Kentucky Oaks .
Stonerside Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm and horse racing operation in Paris , Kentucky . Until September 2008 it was owned by Robert and Janice McNair , who also own the National Football League team , the Houston Texans . They sold the highly successful operation to the Darley racing conglomerate of Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai . Stonerside Stable is a finalist for the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder for 2008 .
Silverbulletday ( foaled January 22 , 1996 in Kentucky ) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse . Bred in Kentucky , she was sired by Silver Deputy and out of the GII winning mare Rokeby Rose . Her damsire was Tom Rolfe , the 1965 Preakness Stakes winner and that year 's U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt . Her grandsire was Deputy Minister , the 1981 Canadian Horse of the Year and a very important North American sire .
Gary Lynn Stevens ( born March 6 , 1963 ) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey , actor , and sports analyst . He became a professional jockey in 1979 and rode his first of three Kentucky Derby winners in 1988 . As of 2014 [ update ] , he has also won the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes three times each , as well as 10 Breeders ' Cup races and is a nine-time winner of the Santa Anita Derby . He entered the United States Racing Hall of Fame in 1997 . Combining his U.S. and international wins , Stevens had over 5,000 race wins by 2005 , and reached his 5,000 North American win on February 15 , 2015 . His career successes were intertwined with significant injuries and periods of temporary retirement due to knee problems from 1999 until 2000 , and again from 2005 to 2013 . He had an acting role in the 2003 film Seabiscuit . After his second retirement from riding in 2005 , he worked for TVG and then HRTV and NBC Sports as a horse racing analyst for seven years , had a brief stint as a race horse trainer , and took a few other acting roles , notably in the TV series Luck , before coming out of retirement again in 2013 . In the 2013 season , he won 69 of 383 races and finished the year 12th in the nation in purse earnings , winning a number of significant races including the 2013 Preakness Stakes , the Breeders ' Cup Distaff and the Breeders ' Cup Classic . In 2014 , he rode in the first half of the year , but his knee problems became too severe to continue riding , and in July he announced a break in order to get a total knee replacement . He returned to riding by mid-October 2014 , accepted mounts for the 2014 Breeders ' Cup , and rode a winning race by mid-November 2014 . Following the 2016 Breeders ' Cup , he again took time off , this time for a hip replacement , returning to racing in March 2017 .
Michael E. Pegram ( born February 16 , 1952 in Fort Knox , Kentucky ) is the co-owner of the 2010 Preakness Stakes winner Lookin at Lucky and owner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Real Quiet . He grew up in Princeton , Indiana going to the races at Ellis Park Racecourse and Churchill Downs and dreamed of someday owning a Kentucky Derby winner . He also won the 1998 Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies with Silverbulletday and after she was voted that year 's Eclipse Award for Outstanding 2-Year-Old Filly , came back in 1999 to win the Kentucky Oaks . Among his other horses , Pegram owned Captain Steve , High Stakes Player , Queen of Money , Miss Gibson County , Wheeler Oil , Argolid , Favored One , Arches of Gold , Pussycat Doll , and The Texas Tunnel . Pegram became successful as an owner of a number of McDonald 's restaurant franchises in the state of Washington , a business that his father , Jim , had been involved with . Pegram has since moved his restaurant empire to Phoenix , where he lives part-time . Pegram also lives in Del Mar , California . He has three children : Amie and Tim Pegram and Tiffany Peach ; and three brothers : Jim ( a jockey agent ) , Demont , and Gil . Pegram also enjoyed success by winning the 2 million Breeders ' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park in 2007 with Midnight Lute , who trainer Bob Baffert stated was the best horse he 'd ever brought to the Breeder 's Cup . His champion returned the following year at Santa Anita Park to capture the same race , the first sprinter to ever do so .