Looking Back: Caveat Wins '83 Belmont Stakes
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Maryland Horse© WEEKLY JUNEMAY 19,3, 2021 2021 Looking Back: Caveat wins ‘83 Belmont Stakes Bob Coglianese 2 Looking Back: Caveat wins 1983 Belmont Stakes nspired by the 153rd running of the ny’s Halo) after a rough trip in which forced the tiring Au Point into Caveat, IBelmont Stakes-G1 at Belmont Park he was forced wide while making his who bounced twice off the rail. Per- this Saturday, June 5, in Elmont, Ny., bid in the stretch. haps Caveat’s seasoning paid off here we dug through the Maryland Horse Seeking a second consecutive Bel- as the hickory-tough colt continued on, Library archives to shine a spotlight on mont triumph for his stable, Stephens outrunning Slew o’ Gold in the stretch. the Maryland-bred Caveat, winner of skipped the Preakness and prepped His winning margin was three and a the 1983 Belmont and only the second Caveat in a mile and a sixteenth allow- half lengths. horse bred in Maryland to do so, fol- ance race against older horses on Me- Caveat went out a hero six weeks lowing Cloverbrook in 1877. morial Day at Belmont Park. Caveat later, an injury suffered during the Bel- The following article was originally scored by three lengths. mont leading him to early retirement at published in the May/June 1995 issue In the Belmont, Caveat ran exactly the now-defunct Windfields Farm in of Maryland Horse magazine, follow- as Stephens had planned. Laffit Pincay Chesapeake City. His career totals con- ing Caveat’s death: sisted of 21 starts, six wins, six seconds, four thirds, and earn- Among Maryland-bred ings of $542,190. His ability racehorses who have gone on to perform on both turf and to make stud careers in their dirt, proven by the fact that he home state over the last two scored half of his wins on the decades, none has achieved grass, would take on addition- more overall success than the al significance as Caveat 1983 Belmont Stakes-G1 win- launched his next career. ner, who led Maryland’s gen- Syndicated for $7 million, eral sires list for three consecu- Caveat lost no opportunity in tive seasons: 1991, ‘92 and making his mark as a sire. He ‘93. had been represented by 27 Bred by prominent Mary- stakes winners and 24 stakes- land horseman Jim Ryan’s Rye- placed runners, including hill Farm in Mt. Airy, Md., Ca- Awad ($982,616, Secretariat veat (by Cannonade) was out S-G1, etc.), Timely Warning of Cold Hearted (by The Axe ($851,091, Brooklyn Handi- II), a mare who had given cap-G1, Budweiser Maryland Ryan his first stakes win in the Classic twice, etc.) and Cefis 1977 Poinsettia Stakes at Hia- ($785,314, Pennsylvania Der- leah. by-G2, etc.). Campaigned in partner- Caveat established him- ship by Ryan, Robert Kirkham self as one of the nation’s pre- and August Belmont, under the mier sires of turf runners, re- tutelage of trainer Woody Ste- cording a banner season in phens, Caveat started 11 1992 with seven stakes win- times as a 2-year-old, display- ners, all on the turf. That year ing early on the tenacity and he ranked number one come-from-behind style that among turf sires throughout were to become his trade- the country, both by number marks. Finishing on the board of stakes winners and win- in nine of his 11 juvenile out- ners (23). ings, he annexed the Prince Cappy Jackson As of mid-April in 1995, John Stakes (at a mile and a Caveat was represented by a sixteenth on the turf), and placed in Jr. rated him off the pace and the two total of 192 winners, 72 percent win- four stakes (three graded). were eighth, nine lengths back, after a ners from starters, and progeny earn- Seconds in two major Triple Crown mile. Pincay angled the colt toward the ings of more than $13 million. preps—the Arkansas Derby-GI and rail entering the final turn and coming One of this region’s all-time best Tropical Park Derby-G2, plus a victory out of that turn Caveat went after the race horses and sires, he collapsed in the Derby Trial Stakes, established leaders. and died of an apparent heart attack the Maryland-bred as a serious Ken- For a moment it looked as if Cave- on February 21, 1995 at Northview tucky Derby contender. And he proved at’s hard luck might prevail again when Stallion Station in Chesapeake City. He to be just that, finishing third (to Sun- Slew o’ Gold on the outside apparently was 15. 3 Maryland-bred stakes entries: Belmont Park eadlined by the 153rd running of Hthe $1.5 million Belmont Stakes-G1 on Saturday, June 5, the Bel- mont Stakes Racing Festival kicks off today, June 3 and will include 17 stakes races in total with eight Grade 1 races to be contested on Belmont Stakes Day. Maryland-bred stakes entries in- clude I Get It in the $200,000 Wonder Again S-G3 today - post time is 6:45 p.m. Knicks Go will take on the $1,000,000 Metropolitan Handi- cap-G1 on Saturday, June 5 - post time Thompson (2) Ryan is 4:42 p.m. KNICKS GO (PAYNTER--KOSMO’S BUDDY, BY I GET IT (GET STORMY--TWISTED BEAUTY, BY Both Maryland-breds were born OUTFLANKER): OWNED BY KOREA RACING GENERAL QUARTERS): OWNED BY GARY AUTHORITY, TRAINED BY BRAD H. COX, BRED BARBER, TRAINED BY MARK E. CASSE, BRED and raised at GreenMount Farm in BY ANGIE MOORE AND SABRINA MOORE. BY FLYING H STABLES, LLC. Glyndon, Md. 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