Art Collector

Art Collector began his career racing on the grass, running second in his debut before a breakthrough win in his second start Sept. 5, 2019, at Kentucky Downs. He made his stakes debut in the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes in October and finished a nonthreatening seventh.

The Bernardini colt subsequently was shifted to the main track and two starts later closed out his 3-year-old season with a runaway 7 ½-length win on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs.

Transferred to Thomas Drury Jr. before his 3-year-old campaign, Art Collector posted back-to-back runaway victories at Churchill Downs in May and June 2020. He returned to stakes competition in the Grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes July 11 at Keeneland and put away multiple graded stakes-winning filly Swiss Skydiver in the stretch to post a convincing victory, earning 100 qualifying points for the delayed Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve.

Art Collector made his final prep before the Sept. 5 Derby in the Runhappy Ellis Park Derby on Aug. 9. He immediately went to the lead as the 2-5 favorite and rebuffed a challenge from Attachment Rate at the top of the stretch to win by 3 ¼ lengths. Art Collector earned 50 more qualifying points for the Derby and solidified his status as a leading contender in the run for the roses.  

Art Collector was forced to miss the Kentucky Derby after he sustained a minor injury to his left-front heel, but he recovered to compete in the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes. After stalking the early pace, Art Collector finished evenly for fourth in what was the final jewel of the reconfigured 2020 Triple Crown.

Grade 1-placed stakes winner Distorted Legacy, by Distorted Humor, is the dam of Art Collector.