Silent Poet

Silent Poet won two of his first three starts before testing stakes competition for the first time in the 2018 Queen’s Plate, the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown. He finished a nonthreatening 12 after a troubled trip but later that fall earned a breakthrough stakes win in grass in the Vice Regent Stakes at Woodbine.

After the Vice Regent, Silent Poet went back to the synthetic main track at Woodbine and placed in two stakes.

The Silent Name gelding returned to turf for his 2019 debut and won an allowance race by a half-length July 21 at Woodbine. Silent Poet made his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 Play the King Stakes and blazed to a 1 ¾-length victory in a course-record time of 1:19.22 for seven-eighths of a mile. He was unplaced in the Grade 1 Ricoh Woodbine Mile before finishing second in the Bunty Lawless Stakes in his final race of 2019.

Silent Poet won an allowance race on June 11 at Woodbine in his return from a 7 1/2-month layoff and followed with a hard-fought, half-length win over Blind Ambition in the Grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes July 11 going seven-eighths of a mile at the Toronto-area track.

He then finished third in the King Edward Stakes at and easily won a 6 ½-furlong allowance, and on Oct. 18 took the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes by a neck. Silent Poet improved to 10 wins in 18 career starts with the victory, racing exclusively at Woodbine.

Following that Grade 1 win, Silent Poet finished fourth in the Grade 2 Kennedy Road Stakes to close out 2020 and then checked in fifth in his first two 2021 starts at age 6, an allowance and the Grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes. He then recaptured his best form in an optimal race, scoring a 9.95-1 upset win in the Grade 1 Highlander Stakes on Aug. 22 at Woodbine. That pushed his career earnings to over $873,000.