Skippylongstocking

Skippylongstocking needed three starts at Gulfstream Park to earn his first career win, finally getting the job done Sept. 26, 2021, with a 10 ½-length runaway going a mile on the dirt main track. He subsequently ran fourth at Churchill Downs before an unplaced finish at Gulfstream in his final start as a 2-year-old.

The Exaggerator colt was sixth in the Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream in his 3-year-old bow, beaten by 17 ¾ lengths by Simplification, but two starts later regained his winning for with a 3 ¾-length allowance win going 1 1/8 miles at Gulfstream Park.

Sent to New York for the $750,000 Wood Memorial Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets April 9 at Aqueduct, Skippylongstocking finished willingly for third in his graded stakes debut to earn 20 points toward qualifying for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve.

Skippylongstocking skipped the Derby and raced next in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 21. He finished fifth by 7 1/2 lengths after a wide trip. He bounced back next out with a third-place performance in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets at Belmont Park on June 11. 

In his first start after the Belmont, Skippylongstocking broke through with his first graded stakes win, outdueling Belmont fourth-place finisher We the People to take the Grade 3 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Park by 1 ½ lengths on Aug. 6.