Fire Away

Fire Away picked up his first win in his fifth start  for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey and owner-breeder Phipps Stables. He added a pair of allowance wins in fall 2015 and posted another allowance score in November 2016.

Fire Away made his stakes debut in the Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes in January 2017 and finished ninth thanks in part to a terrible trip in which he was bumped and then had another horse clip his heels. The Ft. Lauderdale marked the start of a seven-race winless stretch in which Fire Away finished in the top three four times. He finally regained his winning form in November 2017 when he nailed down his first stakes victory with a one-length win in the Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct.

In his 2018 debut, Fire Away ran third in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes. He followed with a victory by 1 ¼ lengths in the Danger’s Hour Stakes at Aqueduct. On the Preakness Stakes undercard, Fire Away picked up his first career graded stakes victory when he prevailed by three-quarters of a length in the off-the-turf Grade 3 Dixie Stakes.

Fire Away is a half-brother (same dam [mother], different sire [father]) to Grade 1 winner Mr Speaker.