Cherry Wine
Gray or Roan Colt / February 12th, 2013 in KY / by Paddy O'Prado out of C. S. Royce
$512,754
2016 earnings
103
speed figure
13%
2016 wins
racing Record
2016 Stats
Career Stats
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1
Firsts
2
1
Seconds
2
1
Thirds
2
5
Unplaced
7
8
Starts
13
$512,754
Earnings
$563,832
$64,094
Earnings / Start
$43,372
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Bio
After finishing in the top three in two of his first four races, three of which came on turf, Cherry Wine broke through with his first career victory on a sloppy racetrack at Churchill Downs on Nov. 28, 2015. He charged from off the pace and powered away to win by 9 1/4 lengths. Cherry Wine remained on the main track for his 3-year-old debut as well and won by a dominant six lengths on Jan. 9 at Gulfstream Park.
After finishing in the top three in two of his first four races, three of which came on turf, Cherry Wine broke through with his first career victory on a sloppy racetrack at Churchill Downs on Nov. 28, 2015. He charged from off the pace and powered away to win by 9 1/4 lengths. Cherry Wine remained on the main track for his 3-year-old debut as well and won by a dominant six lengths on Jan. 9 at Gulfstream Park.
Cherry Wine is one of the more experienced horses on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard, having raced eight times including two straight wins before a good fourth-place finish in the Rebel Stakes just three weeks before finishing third in the Blue Grass Stakes. Jockey Corey Lanerie chose to ride Cherry Wine over another Blue Grass entrant, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile third-place finisher Brody’s Cause.
Cherry Wine was on the outside looking in for the 2016 Kentucky Derby because he had insufficient points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Leaderboard, but he capitalized on the opportunity in the Preakness Stakes when he charged from near the back of the pack to finish second to Exaggerator.
Cherry Wine is from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Paddy O'Prado, who finished third in the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Out of the winning Unbridled's Song mare C. S. Royce, Cherry Wine's grandam (maternal grandmother) is Sweeping Story, a multiple stakes winner who finished third in the 1999 Kentucky Oaks. Paddy O'Prado is a half-brother to 2014 Kentucky Oaks winner Untapable.
