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Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC
$135,323
2026 earnings
22%
2026 wins
$8,859,845
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2026 Stats
Career Stats
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2
Firsts
92
2
Seconds
92
4
Thirds
61
1
Unplaced
329
9
Starts
574
$135,323
Earnings
$8,859,845
$15,036
Earnings / Start
$15,435
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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.
