Point Given
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| Sire: | Thunder Gulch | |
| Dam: | Turko's Turn | |
| Damsire: | Turkoman | |
| Sex: | Stallion | |
| Foaled: | 1998 | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Colour: | Chestnut | |
| Breeder: | The Thoroughbred Corp. | |
| Owner: | The Thoroughbred Corp. | |
| Trainer: | Bob Baffert | |
| Record: | 13: 9-3-0 | |
| Earnings: | $3,968,500 | |
| Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | ||
| Major Racing Wins | ||
| Hollywood Futurity (2000) San Felipe Stakes (2001) Santa Anita Derby (2001) Preakness Stakes (2001) Belmont Stakes (2001) Haskell Invitational Handicap (2001) Travers Stakes (2001) |
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| Racing Awards | ||
| U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (2001) United States Horse of the Year (2001) |
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Infobox last updated on: October 1, 2006. |
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Point Given, an American racehorse foaled on March 27, 1998 in Kentucky. In 2001, as a three year old, he won the 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.
Point Given was just one of only five horses since 1900 to win the G1 Preakness, the G1 Belmont, and the G1 Travers Stakes. The others are Man O' War, Damascus, Whirlaway, and Native Dancer.
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.
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 $50,000. His first foals are three-year-olds as of 2006.
[edit] References
- Point Given's pedigree
- Point Given at Three Chimneys Farm: news, conformation, pedigree, racing record
- Belmont winners
- Preakness winners
- Point Given: Three-year-old Male of the Year
Categories: 1998 racehorse births | Thoroughbred racehorses | Northern Dancer bloodline | Racehorses trained in the United States | Racehorses bred in Kentucky | American racehorses | Famous horses | Eclipse Award winners | American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year | Preakness Stakes winners | Belmont Stakes winners
