Max Player
Dark Bay or Brown Colt / April 27th, 2017 in KY / by Honor Code out of Fools in Love
$457,500
2020 earnings
105
speed figure
20%
2020 wins
racing Record
2020 Stats
Career Stats
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1
Firsts
2
0
Seconds
1
2
Thirds
2
2
Unplaced
2
5
Starts
7
$457,500
Earnings
$493,500
$91,500
Earnings / Start
$70,500
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Bio
Max Player closed from far off the pace to run second by a half-length in his career debut Nov. 12, 2019, at Parx Racing. He followed with a dominant 4 ¼-length victory Dec. 17 in a one-mile race on a sloppy track at Parx.
Trainer Linda Rice tested the dark bay or brown Honor Code colt against graded stakes competition in his 3-year-old bow, entering Max Player in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes Feb. 1 at Aqueduct. Max Player aced the exam by closing from sixth for a 3 1/4-length score and banked 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
Max Player closed from far off the pace to run second by a half-length in his career debut Nov. 12, 2019, at Parx Racing. He followed with a dominant 4 ¼-length victory Dec. 17 in a one-mile race on a sloppy track at Parx.
Trainer Linda Rice tested the dark bay or brown Honor Code colt against graded stakes competition in his 3-year-old bow, entering Max Player in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes Feb. 1 at Aqueduct. Max Player aced the exam by closing from sixth for a 3 1/4-length score and banked 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
Max Player made his first start since his breakthrough Withers win in a very tough assignment: the 152nd Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets on June 20. Well back early in the 1 1/8-mile Belmont, which was shortened and rescheduled as the first leg of a Triple Crown altered by the global health pandemic, he rallied in the stretch to secure third behind Tiz the Law and Dr Post, earning 30 more Kentucky Derby qualifying points. Max Player finished third again in the Runhappy Travers Stakes Aug. 8, cementing his spot in the starting gate for the run for the roses with 60 points.
A half-brother (same dam [mother], different sire [father]) to Group 2 winner Seahenge, Max Player is out of the stakes-winning Not For Love mare Fools in Love.
