Blacktype (FR)
Dark Bay or Brown Gelding / April 5th, 2011 in FR / by Dunkerque (FR) out of Theorie (FR)
$221,920
2018 earnings
117
speed figure
43%
2018 wins
racing Record
2018 Stats
Career Stats
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3
Firsts
12
0
Seconds
3
0
Thirds
8
4
Unplaced
14
7
Starts
37
$221,920
Earnings
$973,335
$31,703
Earnings / Start
$26,306
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Bio
Blacktype began his racing career in his native France, where he won two of nine races. He came to the U.S. in 2014 and finished fifth in the Grade 3 Hill Prince Stakes in his first start in North America.
Blacktype won three of his next eight races before recording his first stakes win in the Grade 3 Oceanport Stakes in July 2016 at Monmouth Park. He made it back-to-back stakes wins in his next race with a hard-charging, off-the-pace win in the Grade 2 Commonwealth Turf Cup Stakes at Laurel Park.
Blacktype began his racing career in his native France, where he won two of nine races. He came to the U.S. in 2014 and finished fifth in the Grade 3 Hill Prince Stakes in his first start in North America.
Blacktype won three of his next eight races before recording his first stakes win in the Grade 3 Oceanport Stakes in July 2016 at Monmouth Park. He made it back-to-back stakes wins in his next race with a hard-charging, off-the-pace win in the Grade 2 Commonwealth Turf Cup Stakes at Laurel Park.
Following those high points, Blacktype raced competitively without winning for nearly a year, making six starts and finishing second once and third three times, with his best performance a close runner-up finish in the listed Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct. Then, in September 2017 Blacktype took a competitive allowance optional claiming race at Belmont Park by a length and then in his next start posted a driving one-length score in the Grade 2 Knickerbocker Stakes over the same turf course. Blacktype duplicated that victory in 2018, winning the Knickerbocker by a neck while earning a career-high 117 Equibase speed figure.
Blacktype hails from the family of U.S. champion and classic winner Northern Dancer, one of the most influential sires in the history of Thoroughbred racing and a Canadian Horse of the Year.
