Renegade

Renegade was a $975,000 purchase at the 2024 Keeneland September yearling sale by Mike Repole’s Repole Stables, which owns the Into Mischief colt in partnership with Robert and Lawana Low.

The bay colt finished third Aug. 16, 2025, at Saratoga Race Course in his career debut before a significantly improved effort in his second race. Renegade battled gamely through the stretch to finish first in a one-mile allowance race Oct. 17 at Aqueduct but was disqualified for interference in the stretch after bumping with Paladin and placed second behind that rival.

Todd Pletcher opted to try Renegade against stakes competition in his third start in the 1 1/8-mile Remsen Stakes, a Grade 2 Kentucky Derby qualifying race Dec. 6 at Aqueduct. Renegade challenged for the lead at the top of the stretch but could not out-finish Paladin and settled for second, two lengths behind the winner.

Technically still a maiden at this point, Renegade made his 3-year-old debut at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 7, 2026. in the $210,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes and was already accomplished enough to be sent off as the 6-5 favorite in a field of nine horses. Renegade left no doubt as to who the best horse was in the Sam F. Davis, he rallied from off the pace and scored a convincing 3 3/4-length victory, a maiden no more. The Sam F. Davis Stakes was a points race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve, and with his victory he earned another 20 qualifying points to his total.

Grade 3 winner Spice is Nice, by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, is the dam (mother) of Renegade. Grade 1 winner Dame Dorothy, by Bernardini, is Renegade’s grandam (maternal grandmother).