Last Judgment

After running fourth in his career debut in December 2018, Last Judgment won back to back races by open lengths in February at Gulfstream Park and March at Oaklawn Park to begin his 3-year-old season. He subsequently was unplaced in the Grade 3 Pat Day Mile Stakes presented by LG and E and KU in his stakes debut. Following a fourth-place finish in the 2019 Pegasus Stakes, in which King for a Day defeated Maximum Security, Last Judgment was gelded and did not return to action until February 2020.

Last Judgment won three of eight starts in 2020, taking a pair of allowance-optional claiming races and a claiming race.

After knocking on the door against stakes company throughout his career, this Mike Maker trainee earned his first stakes win at Gulfstream Park in the Sunshine Classic Stakes on Jan. 16, 2021. He went gate-to-wire for a 6 1/2-length victory, with Jose Ortiz in the saddle. He covered 1 1/8 miles on dirt in 1:49.76. The Congrats gelding ran eighth in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes five days later, but Last Judgment bounced back impressively with a front-running victory March 6 at Tampa Bay Downs in the  Grade 3 Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes to post his first graded stakes win.

Next out, on Mar. 27, Last Judgment was the favorite in the Grade 3 Ghostzapper Stakes at Gulfstream. He set a fast pace while being pressured, and held on to finish second.