Get Smokin

Get Smokin, a Get Stormy gelding owned by the Mary Abeel Sullivan Revocable Trust and trained by Thomas Bush, won his second career start at Belmont Park in a one-mile turf race by a length and began 2020 with two second-place finishes and one third-place finish in stakes races at Gulfstream Park. During the summer, he notched another runner-up finish in a stakes race, this time finishing behind heavy favorite Decorated Invader in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga.

After finishing last of eight in the Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes, Get Smokin turned his form around in a big way by taking the Oct. 18 Grade 2 Hill Prince Stakes on yielding turf at Belmont Park, besting familiar foe and odds-on favorite Decorated Invader by a head.

In his final start as a 3-year-old, Get Smokin set the pace in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and led into deep stretch at 30.40-1 odds but faded just a bit late and finished fourth, beaten by three-quarters of a length by winner Domestic Spending.

Get Smokin made his 4-year-old debut in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes Feb. 6 and stalked pacesetter Proven Strategies in the 1 1/16-mile race. He seized command nearing the top of the stretch and opened a clear advantage before holding off the late rush of fast-closing Eons to prevail. He picked up another stakes win in the Seek Again Stakes at Belmont on May 22, going gate-to-wire as the lone speed on paper.

Get Smokin is out of the winning Smoke Glacken mare Hookah Lady and is from the family of champion and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Dayatthespa.