Sharp Samurai and jockey Gary Stevens win the Grade III, $150,000 La Jolla Handicap, Sunday, August 6, 2017 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA.© BENOIT PHOTO
Multiple Grade 2 winner Sharp Samurai has been retired from racing, and he will take up residence at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., BloodHorse reports.
The 7-year-old First Samurai gelding finished his on-track career with earnings of $1,111,270, winning eight of 23 starts. A west-coast mainstay, his most notable triumphs came in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby, Twilight Derby, and City of Hope Mile Stakes, as well as the G3 La Jolla Handicap.
Sharp Samurai finished in the money in nine additional graded stakes races, including all five of his starts in 2020. Among them was a runner-up effort in last year’s G1 Pacific Classic and a third in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland, his first race away from California.
Sharp Samurai was trained and co-owned by Mark Glatt for the partnership of Red Baron’s Barn and Rancho Temescal. The gelding was bred in Kentucky by Cudney Stables.
Read more at BloodHorse.
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