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Year: Winner: Second: Third: Starters: 2023 11 2022 Zandon Smile Happy Emmanuel 11 2021 Essential Quality: Highly Motivated Rombauer: 9 2020 Art Collector: Swiss Skydiver
Arrogate was sired by the Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Unbridled's Song, whose other major winners have included Will Take Charge, the sprinter Zensational and Breeders' Cup winners Unrivaled Belle and Unbridled Elaine. [9] Arrogate's dam Bubbler was a successful racemare who won six of her nine races. [10] [11]
[10] Cody's Wish started from post 6 in the nine-horse Dirt Mile field, with Dorman allowed to watch the race from the winner's circle. [10] Again breaking slowly and traveling at the rear of the field, Cody's Wish rallied while wide on the final turn, passing Cyberknife in the stretch and winning by a head. [ 11 ]
Epicenter responded to the challenge from Zandon but could not match Rich Strike's closing kick. He finished second by three-quarters of a length to one of the biggest upset winners in the history of the Derby. [16] [17] After the race, Asmussen said he could not believe Epicenter had lost after he took the lead in the stretch.
Wise Dan (foaled February 20, 2007) is a champion American Hall of Fame and Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. He is the first horse to win the same three Eclipse Awards in consecutive years, having been named American Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male and Champion Male Turf Horse in 2012 and 2013.
Notable winners in the 2000s include 2004 Breeders' Cup Turf winner Better Talk Now winning the event in 2005. English Channel won the event for the second time in 2007. He continued his excellent form and captured the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Turf by 7 lengths at Monmouth Park. [25]
Other notable winners of this event include the 1994 winner Timber Country who went on that year to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was crowned US Champion Two-Year-Old Horse who the following year became the first horse to ever win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and American Triple Crown Classic Race when he won the 1995 Preakness Stakes.
Forty Niner was the U.S. Champion colt at age two after major wins in the Champagne Stakes, Belmont Futurity Stakes and Breeders' Futurity Stakes.. Forty Niner was one of the Winterbook betting favorites to win the 1988 Kentucky Derby.