Red Knight

Red Knight, a 6-year-old Pure Prize gelding, broke through with his first graded stakes win in the Oct. 15, 2020 Grade 3 Sycamore Stakes for owner Trinity Farm and trainer Bill Mott.

He had kept good company in his 19 starts prior to the Sycamore, breaking his maiden in his second start in 2017 and then winning three allowance/optional claiming races during 2017-18. He captured his first stakes win in the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes at Gulfstream Park to close out 2018 and then remained competing in stakes races during 2019 and 2020, winning another listed stakes at Belmont Park and finishing second in three graded events.

He entered the Sycamore Stakes off of a runner-up finish to Arklow in the Grade 3 Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup Classic and moved forward off of that effort under a well-timed ride by James Graham to win the 1 ½-mile race at Keeneland going away.

In his first two starts of 2021, Red Knight was sixth in the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland on Apr. 17, then finished second in the Grade 3 Louisville Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 15.