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Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC
$2,038,274
2025 earnings
23%
2025 wins
$8,714,887
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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6
Firsts
90
7
Seconds
90
0
Thirds
57
13
Unplaced
324
26
Starts
561
$2,038,274
Earnings
$8,714,887
$78,395
Earnings / Start
$15,535
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Bio
Janis Whitham owns and bred 2017 Kentucky Derby hopeful McCraken. She also teamed with McCraken’s trainer, Ian Wilkes, and jockey, Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr., to win the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic with Fort Larned.
Whitham also bred and raced Grade 1 winners Affluent and Mea Domina, the latter a half-sister to McCraken’s dam, Ivory Empress. Whitham and her husband, Frank, who died in a plane crash in 1993, won both the 1989 and 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff with two-time champion Bayakoa, a 12-time Grade 1 winner.
Janis Whitham owns and bred 2017 Kentucky Derby hopeful McCraken. She also teamed with McCraken’s trainer, Ian Wilkes, and jockey, Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr., to win the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic with Fort Larned.
Whitham also bred and raced Grade 1 winners Affluent and Mea Domina, the latter a half-sister to McCraken’s dam, Ivory Empress. Whitham and her husband, Frank, who died in a plane crash in 1993, won both the 1989 and 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff with two-time champion Bayakoa, a 12-time Grade 1 winner.
