The Player
Chestnut Horse / March 21st, 2013 in KY / by Street Hero out of Hour Queen
$93,000
2018 earnings
116
speed figure
33%
2018 wins
racing Record
2018 Stats
Career Stats
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1
Firsts
5
0
Seconds
3
0
Thirds
1
2
Unplaced
5
3
Starts
14
$93,000
Earnings
$452,485
$31,000
Earnings / Start
$32,320
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Bio
The Player emerged as a late-developing 3-year-old in spring 2016, winning his maiden in his third career start at Churchill Downs a few days after the Kentucky Derby. The Street Hero colt, co-owned and trained by Buff Bradley, finished a close second to Cupid in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby two starts later, but was then away from the track for nearly a year.
The Player emerged as a late-developing 3-year-old in spring 2016, winning his maiden in his third career start at Churchill Downs a few days after the Kentucky Derby. The Street Hero colt, co-owned and trained by Buff Bradley, finished a close second to Cupid in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby two starts later, but was then away from the track for nearly a year.
Upon returning in June 2017, The Player finished third in the Kelly’s Landing Stakes at Churchill, sixth in a listed stakes at Mountaineer Park, a dominant first in a one-mile Ellis Park allowance optional claimer, and then a gritty second to Awesome Slew in the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes back at Churchill. The Player earmed his first career stakes victory in his next start, when he put away Grade 1-placed Neolitich in the stretch en route to a dominant win in the Grade 2 Hagyard Fayette Stakes. He closed his 4-year-old season with a fifth-place finish in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap.
The Player made his 2018 debut in the Louisiana Stakes and ran fourth in the 1 1/16-mile race at Fair Grounds. He bounced back with a dominant victory in his second race of the year when overwhelmed the opposition in a 4 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Mineshaft Handicap at the same track and distance. He missed the stakes record in the Mineshaft by one-hundredth of a second in covering the distance in 1:42.29.
