Lucullan

Lucullan, a Godolphin homebred son of Hard Spun trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, broke his maiden on June 23, 2017, at Belmont Park in a 1 1/16-mile turf race after finishing second and fourth in his first two starts. He raced three more times during his 3-year-old season, winning a turf allowance at Belmont in October and just missing winning his first stakes attempt, running second to Yoshida by a nose in the Grade 3 Hill Prince Stakes in October.

In 2018, Lucullan only raced three times. He won his first start in February at Gulfstream Park and then ran sixth and third in two stakes tries before taking over a year off from racing due to a cannon bone injury.

On July 3, 2019, the now 5-year-old Lucullan returned with a sharp 1 ¼-length win in a Belmont turf allowance, and next broke through with his first stakes win at Saratoga, taking the listed Fasig-Tipton Lure Stakes by a nose on Aug. 3. He then jumped up to Grade 1 company in the Sept. 14 Ricoh Woodbine Mile and made a threatening move down Woodbine’s long stretch before drifting out late. He was disqualified from third to fourth in that race.

Lucullan rebounded from that start in the Oct. 14 Grade 3 Knickerbocker Stakes at Belmont Park, rallying from off the pace to secure his first career graded stakes win by a length over Olympico and improve to 3-for-4 in 2019.

Lucullan is out of the Grade 3-winning Seeking the Gold mare Golden Velvet and is a half-brother to Grade 3-winning filly Innovative Idea. He is from the family of Grade 1 winner and sire Sky Mesa, influential sire Bernstein, and 2019 Grade 1 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity winner Maxfield.