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Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Horse trainer Carl Nafzger, jockeys Edgar Prado and Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela as well as horses Inside Information, Manila and Ancient Title were elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame on Monday. Induction ceremonies will be on August 4 in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Carl Nafzger conditioned champion horses such as 1990 champion 3-year-old male Unbridled, 1998 champion 3-year-old filly Banshee Breeze and 2006 champion 2-year-old male Street Sense who won last year’s Kentucky Derby. Nafzger was also the 1990 Eclipse Award winner as outstanding trainer.
Edgar Prado became the 16th North American rider with 6,000 victories on February 9. Prado won the 2006 Kentucky Derby aboard Barbaro and the Belmont Stakes on Sarava in 2002 and Birdstone in 2004. Edgar Prado received the 2006 Eclipse Award as outstanding jockey.
Jockey Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela rode from 1951 through 1980, winning 2,545 career races for earnings of more than $20 million. Valenzuela won the 1958 Kentucky Derby with Tim Tam, then pulled of the Kentucky Derby-Preakness double 10 years later with Forward Pass.
Inside Information won the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Belmont Park by 13 1/2 lengths, a Breeders’ Cup record that still stands. An Ogden Mills Phipps homebred, Inside Information scored in five other Grade 1 races for her Hall of Fame trainer, Shug McGaughey. Inside Information never finished off the board while winning 14 of 17 starts.
Manila was the 1986 Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. I) winner and champion turf male. Trained by Hall of Fame member LeRoy Jolley for Mike Shannon, Manila won 12 of 18 starts and earned $2,692,799. His Breeders’ Cup victory came during a nine-race win streak that spanned 1986-1987.
Ancient Title was the leading California-bred earner in history when he retired at age eight in 1978 with a bankroll of $1,252,791. The Gummo gelding won five Grade 1 races in California and was victorious in the 1975 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
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