Sire Thunder Gulch Dam Turko's Turn Foaled 1998 Parents Thunder Gulch Sex Stallion | Grandsire Gulch Damsire Turkoman Country United States Trainer Bob Baffert Earnings 3.968 million USD | |
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Children Sealy Hill, Point Determined Awards American Horse of the Year, American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse | ||
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Point Given (foaled March 27, 1998) is an American Hall of Fame champion Thoroughbred racehorse. 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 win four $1 million 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 whom won 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 finished out of the money was in the 2001 Kentucky Derby, where he ran 5th.
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Racing career
Point Given was the first horse since 1967 to win the Grade 1 $1 million 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 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, Point Given was found to have a strained tendon that ended 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 first foals were three-year-olds in 2006.
In 2013, Point Given was relocated to Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. His stud fee as of February 2016 was $7,500. In 2010, Point Given was voted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
