Up to the Mark
Bay Colt / February 27th, 2019 in KY / by Not This Time out of Belle's Finale
$746,150
2023 earnings
115
speed figure
75%
2023 wins
racing Record
2023 Stats
Career Stats
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3
Firsts
4
0
Seconds
0
1
Thirds
2
0
Unplaced
3
4
Starts
9
$746,150
Earnings
$829,550
$186,538
Earnings / Start
$92,172
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Bio
Up to the Mark began his career with a sparkling 4 ¼-length win in a three-quarter-mile sprint July 21, 2022, at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher and co-owners Repole Stable and St Elias Stable, which purchased him for $450,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September yearling sale.
The Not This Time colt faded late to finish third in his second start going one mile later during the 2022 summer meet at Saratoga and then was unplaced in his final three races as a 3-year-old at distances ranging from seven-eighths of a mile to 1 1/8 miles.
Up to the Mark began his career with a sparkling 4 ¼-length win in a three-quarter-mile sprint July 21, 2022, at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher and co-owners Repole Stable and St Elias Stable, which purchased him for $450,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September yearling sale.
The Not This Time colt faded late to finish third in his second start going one mile later during the 2022 summer meet at Saratoga and then was unplaced in his final three races as a 3-year-old at distances ranging from seven-eighths of a mile to 1 1/8 miles.
Transferred to the turf for his 4-year-old debut, Up to the Mark immediately showed improvement with a four-length win Jan. 28, 2023, at Gulfstream Park in a one-mile race on the grass. He won again on the turf at 1 1/16 miles March 4 before finishing third in his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes April 14 at Keeneland.
Pletcher kept him in stakes company for his next race and this time Up to the Mark proved much the best in winning the $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes on the May 6 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve undercard at Churchill Downs.
Up to the Mark was produced by the unraced Ghostzapper mare Belle’s Finale, a full-sister (same dam [mother], same sire [father]) to Grade 3-placed stakes winner and stakes producer Zapper Belle.
