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The Risen Star Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the dirt run annually in February, usually during the President's Day weekend at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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.
The event is named in honor of Quick Call, the multiple graded stakes winning gelding who won more than half his 16 career victories at the Saratoga Race Course. [2] Quick Call was a dual winner of the GII Forego Handicap , lived to the age of 35 and is buried at Clare Court in Saratoga Springs .
The 2020 Preakness Stakes was the 145th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (1.9 km). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
This event is named for Forego, the American Horse of the Year for three straight years between 1974 and 1976. [1]The event was inaugurated on 27 August 1980, Opening Day of the Belmont Park Fall meeting for that year over a distance of one mile with handicap conditions and was won by Tanthem who was ridden by United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez in a time of 1:35 flat. [2]