Carpe Diem Research Paper

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Carpe Diem For the Win I chose Carpe Diem for the Kentucky Derby. I really didn’t choose him for any particular reason other than I thought he had a cool name. Coffee Pot Stables, located in Kentucky, bred him. His pedigree includes Rebridled Dreams and Giant’s Causeway, who has links back to Secretariat (horseracingnation.com). WinStar Farm LLC and Stonestreet Stables LLC own Carpe Diem. Carpe Diem is a 3-year-old colt. He is a chestnut with a stripe, two socks, and a pastern. Carpe Diem has had quite an impressive career record so far. According to americasbestracing.net, he has had 5 starts, and of these “5 starts he has 4 wins, 1 second, and 0 thirds.” Also, he has earned $1,519,800 in his career, with roughly $303,960 earnings per start (americasbestracing.net). When Carpe Diem was bought at auction, he was purchased for $1.6 million. As you can see, he has just about paid for himself in his earnings. He has done quite well as a pacesetter and stalker. It seems to work quite well for him and his jockey John Velazquez. The past performances of Carpe Diem have been quite impressive as well. At …show more content…

Velazquez has an impressive history in horse racing. In 2011, he won the Kentucky Derby for the first time while riding Animal Kingdom. In 2004, he won the Kentucky Oaks while aboard Ashado (kentuckyderby.com). He has also raced in the Belmont Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup. In the Belmont Stakes, he won twice and 10 times he has taken horses to victory in the Breeders’ Cup (kentuckyderby.com). In 2011 John was inducted into the Hall of fame, and has been “awarded the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey” twice (kentuckyderby.com). John has been racing in the United States for 22 years and ranks fourth on the “career purse earnings list at $262 million” (americasbestracing.net). When he came to the U.S., he was trained and mentored by Angel Cordero Jr., who is a Hall of Fame jockey

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