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Pocahontas Stakes, the Glossary

The Pocahontas Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies over a distance of one mile on the dirt scheduled annually in September at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.^[1]

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1969 establishments in Kentucky

Albert Stall Jr.

Albert M. Stall, Jr. (born October 10, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer best known for winning the 2010 Breeders' Cup Classic in which his horse Blame defeated the great filly, Zenyatta.

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Anthony S. Black

Anthony S. "Tony" Black (born September 4, 1951) is a record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing. He is a nephew of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey and New Jersey state steward, Sam Boulmetis Sr. He was raised in Haddon Township, New Jersey, where he has been a longtime resident, and attended Haddon Township High School, graduating in the class of 1970.

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Arthur I. Appleton

Arthur Ivar Appleton (October 14, 1915 – January 15, 2008) was a businessman from the Northbrook area of Chicago.

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Bob Baffert

Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer who is considered one of the most successful and influential trainers in the history of horse racing.

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Breeders' Cup Challenge

The Breeders' Cup Challenge is a series of Thoroughbred horse races in which the winner earns an automatic spot in a specified Breeders' Cup race. Pocahontas Stakes and Breeders' Cup Challenge are Breeders' Cup Challenge series.

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a -mile thoroughbred horse race on dirt (although the distance has varied, depending on the configuration of the host track) for two-year-old fillies run annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships in early November. Pocahontas Stakes and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies are Flat horse races for two-year-old fillies and graded stakes races in the United States.

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Brian Hernandez Jr.

Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr. (born November 3, 1985, in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Bud Delp

Grover Greer "Bud" Delp (September 7, 1932 – December 29, 2006) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best remembered for his conditioning of Hall of Fame colt, Spectacular Bid, who according to Delp was "The greatest horse to ever look through a bridle".

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Calvin Borel

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.

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Chris McCarron

Christopher John McCarron (born March 27, 1955, Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs is a horse racing complex located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, famed for hosting the annual Kentucky Derby.

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Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Paris, Kentucky.

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Corey Lanerie

Corey James Lanerie (born November 13, 1974) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Cornelio Velásquez

Cornelio H. Velásquez (born September 28, 1968, in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 – December 13, 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist.

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Courier Journal

The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Gannett, which bills it as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Network".

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Craig Perret

Craig Perret (born February 2, 1951, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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D. Wayne Lukas

Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935, in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American horse trainer and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

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Dale Romans

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.

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Dallas Stewart

Dallas Stewart (born September 15, 1959, in McComb, Mississippi) trains a string of thoroughbred horses in Kentucky from bases at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Keeneland Race Course, Fair Grounds Race Course, Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course.

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Del W. Carroll

Delmer W. Carroll (October 30, 1919 - May 9, 1982) was an American champion polo player, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/trainer, and soldier during World War II.

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Don Combs

Don Combs is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Donald Brumfield

Donald Alan "Don" Brumfield (born May 24, 1938) is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.

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Doug O'Neill

Douglas F. O'Neill (born May 24, 1968) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Earlie Fires

Earlie Stancel Fires (born March 19, 1947, in Rivervale, Arkansas) is a retired National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey.

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Epitome (horse)

Epitome (April 21, 1985 – November 12, 2004) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare.

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Filly

A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare.

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Frank L. Brothers

Frank L. Brothers (born October 24, 1946, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer from 1980 to 2009 with a career win percentage of just over 23%, winning 2,291 races, including 262 stakes winners of which 50 were graded stakes wins.

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Garrett K. Gomez

Garrett Keith Gomez (January 1, 1972 – December 14, 2016) was an American Thoroughbred jockey who won two Eclipse Awards and thirteen Breeders' Cup races during his career.

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Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA).

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Harvey L. Vanier

Harvey L. Vanier (April 21, 1924 - December 1, 2013) was an American trainer, owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Helen Pitts (horse trainer)

Helen Pitts (born May 23, 1974) is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Horse trainer

A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines.

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Jack Van Berg

John Charles "Jack" Van Berg (June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska – December 27, 2017) was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.

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Jockey

A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.

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John C. Mabee

John C. Mabee (August 21, 1921 – April 24, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder whom About.com called "a California racing icon." A native of Seymour, Iowa, as a young man of twenty, John Mabee moved to San Diego, California, where the climate more suited his health, having had pneumonia and bronchitis.

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John C. Oxley

John C. Oxley, a.k.a. "Jack", (born 1937) is an American oilman, horse breeder and polo player.

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John T. Ward Jr.

John T. Ward Jr. (August 2, 1945 – April 24, 2021) was an American racehorse trainer.

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Joseph Talamo

Joseph Talamo (born January 12, 1990, in Marrero, Louisiana) is a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Julien Leparoux

Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States.

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Kenneth McPeek

Kenneth G. McPeek (born August 2, 1962, in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Kentucky Oaks

The Kentucky Oaks is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Pocahontas Stakes and Kentucky Oaks are Churchill Downs horse races.

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Larry Melancon

Larry J. Melancon (August 7, 1955 – 25 March 2021) was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rode primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit.

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Larry Snyder (jockey)

Larry Lloyd Snyder (June 29, 1942 – October 29, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whose career spanned thirty-five years from 1960 to 1994.

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List of American and Canadian Graded races

The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the Jockey Club of Canada.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Mark Guidry

Mark Guidry (born August 6, 1959, in Lafayette, Louisiana) is a former American jockey.

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Marlon St. Julien

Marlon St.

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Michael Grace Phipps

Michael Grace Phipps (January 10, 1910 – March 13, 1973) was an American businessman, champion polo player, owner/breeder of racehorses, and a philanthropist.

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Miguel Mena

Jose Miguel Mena Rodriguez (November 6, 1986 – October 31, 2021) was a Peruvian-born American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who had been competing in the United States from 2003 until his death.

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Mike E. Smith

Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003 and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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On Fire Baby

On Fire Baby (foaled February 23rd, 2009) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2014 La Troienne Stakes.

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Pat Day

Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953, in Brush, Colorado) is a retired American jockey.

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Patricia Cooksey

Patricia Joen "Patti" or "P.J." Cooksey (born February 25, 1958, in Youngstown, Ohio, United States) is a retired jockey from American Thoroughbred racing.

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Pocahontas

Pocahontas (born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

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Pocahontas (horse)

Pocahontas (1837–1870) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse and the dam of three sires who had a great influence on the breed. Although mares are not generally considered to be as influential as sires, Thoroughbred Heritage refers to Pocahontas as "one of the most influential Thoroughbreds of all time, male or female." Thoroughbred Heritage.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Powhatan (Native American leader)

Powhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.

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Pure Clan

Pure Clan (foaled March 9, 2005 in Kentucky) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse. She won eight races and nearly $2 million in her two-year racing career, participating in races on dirt and turf tracks in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. She was retired in 2010 to be a broodmare and has produced two foals to date.

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Randy Romero

Randy Paul Romero (December 22, 1957 – August 29, 2019) was a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Road to the Kentucky Oaks

The Road to the Kentucky Oaks is a points system to qualify for the Kentucky Oaks, one of the most important races for three-year-old fillies and held the day before the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

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Robby Albarado

Robby J. Albarado (born September 11, 1973, in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Robert E. Holthus

Robert E. "Bob" Holthus (June 24, 1934 – November 22, 2011) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Rosie Napravnik

Anna Rose "Rosie" Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) is a former American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and two-time winner of the Kentucky Oaks.

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Shane Sellers

Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Smiley Adams

William Ernest "Smiley" Adams (October 4, 1935 – June 19, 2003) was an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who trained Master Derby to win the 1975 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. In what was the 100th running of the Preakness, Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby defeated Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure by a full-length.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Stakes

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