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Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC
$1,009,963
2025 earnings
14%
2025 wins
$7,686,576
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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2
Firsts
86
4
Seconds
87
0
Thirds
57
8
Unplaced
319
14
Starts
549
$1,009,963
Earnings
$7,686,576
$72,140
Earnings / Start
$14,001
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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.
