SILVER CHARM RACES INTO THE HALL.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Silver Charm Silver Charm (born February 22 1994) is an American Champion Thoroughbred race horse. Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Gary Stevens, Silver Charm won the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before falling short of the Triple Crown by placing second in the Belmont , who turned a Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. defeat into a Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. victory and parlayed that into international stardom, is one of eight new members of the thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame. Also to be inducted Aug. 6 at the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs, resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source of employment, but the city also has light manufacturing. , N.Y., are jockeys Jose Santos and John Sellers; trainers John Veitch, Henry Forrest and Frank McCabe, and the horses Mom's Command and Swoon's Son. The class of eight is the largest since nine were inducted in 1978. Silver Charm is the second horse owned by Robert and Beverly Lewis of Newport Beach to be elected to the Hall of Fame, following Serena's Song, inducted in 2002. "I'm thrilled to pieces," said Beverly Lewis, who raced Silver Charm with her late husband. "He's the horse that people just love. I'm just so happy that he's there where he belongs." Racing from 1996 through 1999 for trainer Bob Baffert, Silver Charm was champion 3-year-old of 1997, won 12 of 24 starts and earned $6,944,369, still seventh on the career earnings list. Silver Charm and jockey Gary Stevens finished second to Free House in the 1997 Santa Anita Derby but went on to nearly sweep the Triple Crown. The Florida-bred son of Silver Buck won by a head over Captain Bodgit in the Kentucky Derby and Free House in the Preakness and led in the stretch at the Belmont Stakes only to be passed by Touch Gold. At 4, Silver Charm defeated Swain by a nose in the Dubai World Cup The Dubai World Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 at the Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The race is operated through the Emirates Horse Racing Authority (EHRA) whose Chairman is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, . Victories at his California base included Santa Anita's San Fernando Stakes, Strub Stakes and Goodwood Handicap. Santos was aboard Funny Cide when the gelding gelding castrated male horse. won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Veitch is best known for training Alydar, edged by Affirmed in the 1978 Derby, Preakness and Belmont. |
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