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Retired Trainer Mitch Shirota Dies

Retired Trainer Mitch Shirota Dies

Retired trainer and jockey Mitch Shirota, whose training career spanned more than three decades and included a memorable Kentucky Derby Day stakes win at Churchill Downs, died Jan. 4.

 Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Shaconage Retired With Tendon Injury

A leg injury has ended the racing career of multiple graded stakes winner Shaconage only days before her scheduled start in the $150,000-added Cardinal Handicap (gr. IIT) Saturday at Churchill Downs.

 Thursday, November 17, 2005

Delta Princess Tops Mint Julep Field

Delta Princess, who won the Endeavor Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in February, tops a field of seven fillies and mares slated for Saturday's Early Times Mint Julep Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs.

 Thursday, June 02, 2005

Shaconage Breezes Toward Start in Cardinal

Shaconage tuned up for her run in Saturday's $150,000 Cardinal Handicap (gr. IIIT) with a good half-mile work Tuesday over Churchill Downs' Matt Win Turf Course. The Mitch Shirota-trained filly breezed four furlongs around the "dogs" in :50.60 over a course rated "good.

 Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Shaconage Charges to Locust Grove Victory

Shaconage, fourth entering the stretch, got rolling late with jockey Brice Blanc to take over in the final sixteenth of a mile in the $165,750 Locust Grove Handicap (gr. IIIT) on the Churchill Downs turf Saturday.

 Saturday, June 26, 2004

Shaconage Nips Etoile Montante in Argent Mortgage

In a thrilling last few strides, Shaconage and Brice Blanc came through on the hedge to upset heavily favored Etoile Montante and Jerry Bailey in the Argent Mortgage (gr. IIIT).

 Saturday, May 01, 2004

Invader Shaconage Wins Woodbine's Colleen

Woodbine might be unfamiliar turf for Shaconage and jockey Joe Johnson, but the pair certainly looked right at home on the Toronto oval's E.P. Taylor Turf Course in winning Sunday's $153,875 Ontario Colleen Stakes.

 Sunday, August 24, 2003