Point Given
| Point Given | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Thunder Gulch |
| Grandsire | Gulch |
| Dam | Turko's Turn |
| Damsire | Turkoman |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1998 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | The Thoroughbred Corp. |
| Owner | The Thoroughbred Corp. |
| Trainer | Bob Baffert |
| Record | 13: 9-3-0 |
| Earnings | $3,968,500 |
| Major wins | |
| Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes (2000) Hollywood Futurity (2000) San Felipe Stakes (2001) Santa Anita Derby (2001) Haskell Invitational Handicap (2001) Travers Stakes (2001) American Classic Race wins: Preakness Stakes (2001) Belmont Stakes (2001) | |
| Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (2001) American Horse of the Year (2001) | |
| Honours | |
| National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2010) | |
| Last updated on May 29, 2010 | |
Point Given is an American Hall of Fame champion racehorse foaled on March 27, 1998 in Kentucky. As a three-year-old, he won the 2001 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes, along with the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. He is the only horse in history to have won four $1,000,000 races in a row: the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes (in which he ran the fourth fastest Belmont ever, faster than both Seattle Slew and Affirmed, each of which achieved the Triple Crown), the Haskell Invitational Handicap, and the Travers Stakes. His lifetime race record was 9 wins out of 13 starts with 3 second places, earning $3,968,500. The only time he ever finished out of the money was in the 2001 Kentucky Derby, where he ran 5th.
Racing career
Point Given was the first horse since 1967 to win the Grade 1 $1,000,000 Preakness Stakes, the G1 Belmont, and the G1 Travers Stakes, joining an elite club of racing greats who achieved that triple: Man o' War (1920), Whirlaway (1941), Native Dancer (1953), and Damascus (1967).
He was affectionately called "The Big Red Train" or "T-Rex" by his trainer Bob Baffert, owner Prince Ahmed bin Salman, and hall-of-fame jockey Gary Stevens, as well as by the press and the handicappers who made him the betting favorite in all seven of his starts in 2001.
One week after his victory in the Travers Stakes he was found to have a strained tendon, just bad enough to end his racing career. He was retired on September 1, 2001 to stand at stud at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky for an initial fee of $125,000. He was subsequently syndicated (offered for ownership by numerous owners) for $50 million, the third highest price in history (behind Fusaichi Pegasus at $60 million and Big Brown at something over $50 million). His stud fee as of 2007 is $30,000. His first foals were three-year-olds in 2006.
In 2010, Point Given was voted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. [1]
| Sire Thunder Gulch |
Gulch | Mr. Prospector | Raise a Native |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Digger | |||
| Jameela | Rambunctious | ||
| Asbury Mary | |||
| Line of Thunder | Storm Bird | Northern Dancer | |
| South Ocean | |||
| Shoot A Line | High Line | ||
| Death Ray | |||
| Dam Turko's Turn |
Turkoman | Alydar | Raise a Native |
| Sweet Tooth | |||
| Taba | Table Play | ||
| Filipina | |||
| Turbo Launch | Relaunch | In Reality | |
| Foggy Note | |||
| David's Tobin | Tobin Bronze | ||
| Restless Love |
References
- 1998 racehorse births
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Northern Dancer bloodline
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- American racehorses
- American Grade 1 Stakes winners
- Preakness Stakes winners
- Belmont Stakes winners
- Eclipse Award winners
- American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year
- United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees