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Chilukki Fan Page

Chilukki, named for her sire, Cherokee Run (winner of the G1 Breeder's Cup Sprint), after a dialect of the Cherokee Indian tribe, is one of the fastest fillies around. In early 1999, her works prior to and at the Fasig-Tipton 2 Year-Old in Training Sale at Calder were enough to impress the formidable team of Bob Baffert (trainer) and Stonerside Stables (owners) to pay $875,000 for her after partaking in a bidding war. She dazzled everyone, from handicapping's toughest critics to the avid fan, with her first start on April 28, 1999. She overwhelmed the other fillies in the maiden special weight, beating them by a whopping 9 1/4 lengths and in the process demolishing the Churchill Downs track record for 4 1/4 furlongs with a time of 51 seconds flat. Her next start came May 31 in the G3 Kentucky Derby Breeder's Cup against "the boys." She handled the field quite easily, charging to the lead from the gate and keeping it that way, winning by 4 3/4 lengths in a time of 1.04.01 for 5 1/2 furlongs. Next, came the G3 Debutante Stakes for 2 yr old fillies going 5 1/2 furlongs. Again she wowed with a 5 1/4 length victory in a blistering 1:03.66, a new stakes record and just a mere 5 hundredth of a second of the track record. Reeling in yet another win with ease, Chilukki destroyed the noteworthy field by 6 lengths in the 6 1/2 f. G2 Sorrento Stakes. Dashing through brisk fractions of 21.97, 44.76, 1:09.86 she pulled away from the other horses and finished up with a time of 1:16.4. Another electrifying success came in the G1 Del Mar Debutante. Chilukki held off a late run by Spain, after setting blazing fractions, winning by a length and running 1:23.54 for 7 furlongs. She added another triumph to her tally when she stretched out and won the G1 Oak Leaf mile in a stakes record of 1:36.12. In the G1 1 1/16-mile Breeder's Cup Juvenile Fillies, she suffered her first defeat by 1 1/4 lengths, finishing second to Cash Run. With a track bias towards front running speed, Cash Run ran a wire to wire vic

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