Spirit of St Louis

Spirit of St Louis is a multiple New York-bred stakes winner on the turf and off-the-turf who has also found success against open company. In 2023, Spirit of St Louis won the $125,000 Ashley T Cole Stakes and the $194,000 Mohawk Stakes, and in 2024 as a 5-year-old he repeated in the $200,000 Mohawk Stakes while also adding NY-bred wins in the $121,000 Kingston Stakes on a muddy main track and in the $121,000 Hudson Valley Stakes back on the grass.

Spirit of St Louis earned his career-best victory in his first race of his 6-year-old season when he won the Grade 1 $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational going 1 1/8 miles at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25. After racing mid-pack most of the race in a field of 12 in the Pegasus Turf, Spirit of St Louis came with a strong wide rally past horses in the stretch to get the victory by a neck.

Spirit of St Louis got another blue ship win under his belt on the Kentucky Derby undercard in the Grade 1 $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on a turf course labeled "good" on a rainy afternoon at Churchill Downs on May 3. Sent off as the 3.12-1 favorite atop a 10-horse field in the Turf Classic, Spirit of St. Louis trailed the field early and made a last-to-first closing move to get up in time for a three-quarters of a length victory under jockey Manny Franco.

Spirit of St Louis is trained by Chad Brown. He was bred in New York by the sire Medaglia d'Oro out of the mare Khancord Kid by Lemon Drop Kid.