Hal Provides Accelerate With First Stakes Winner
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Photo: Woodbine/Michael Burns Photo
Hal wins the Display Stakes at Woodbine
On Breeders' Cup Saturday Nov. 5, a prior Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner from 2018, Accelerate , sired his first stakes winner when Hal scored a half-length victory in the CA$130,750 Display Stakes at Woodbine Nov. 5.
The Suzi Shoemaker and First Corp. Thoroughbreds-owned runner rallied from fourth to catch pacesetter Ticker Tape Home . The Darwin Banach trainee raced seven furlongs on Woodbine's Tapeta surface in 1:22 under Justin Stein, paying $6.90.
Bred in Kentucky by Lantern Hill Farm & First Corp Thoroughbreds, Hal is the lone foal of the grade 3-winning Pure Prize mare Purely a Dream . Hal is 2-for-2 in his short career.
Accelerate won five grade 1s during his racing career for Hronis Racing and trainer John Sadler—connections who celebrated Flightline 's victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic Saturday at Keeneland. Hronis Racing owns Flightline in partnership.
A son of Lookin At Lucky , Accelerate was the champion older male horse of 2018, when he punctuated his 5-year-old campaign by winning the Classic at Churchill Downs. Following a third in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park in January 2019, he retired to stud with a record of 10 wins, five seconds, and six thirds from 23 starts and earnings of more than $6.6 million.
Accelerate entered Saturday with 12 winners from his first crop of runners. The stallion will stand the 2023 season at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $10,000.
Video: Display S. (BT)