Game On Dude

Game On Dude
Game On Dude in 2010 Belmont Stakes
Sire	Awesome Again
Grandsire	Deputy Minister
Dam	Worldly Pleasure
Damsire	Devil His Due
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	April 26, 2007
Country	United States
Colour	Dark Bay
Breeder	Adena Springs
Owner	Diamond Pride LLC, Lanni Family Trust, Mercedes Stable LLC, Bernie Schiappa
Trainer	Bob Baffert
Record	34: 16-7-1As of 8 March 2014[update]
Earnings	US$ 6,498,893
Major wins
Lone Star Derby (2010) Santa Anita Handicap (2011, 2013, 2014) Goodwood Stakes (2011, 2012) San Antonio Stakes (2012, 2013) Californian Stakes (2012) Hollywood Gold Cup (2012, 2013) Native Diver Handicap (2012) Charles Town Classic (2013) Pacific Classic Stakes (2013)
Last updated on September 18, 2014

Game On Dude (foaled April 26, 2007 in Kentucky) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse gelding. He won fourteen graded stakes races, including eight Grade I stakes: the Santa Anita Handicap in 2011, 2013, and 2014 the only horse to have won that race three times; he also won the Goodwood Stakes twice (2011, 2012), the 2013 Pacific Classic Stakes, and the Hollywood Gold Cup twice (2012, 2013). He has beaten many of the leading North American racehorses including Awesome Gem, Tizway, Ruler on Ice, Uncle Mo, Stay Thirsty, Mucho Macho Man and Will Take Charge and has been rated among the best thirty racehorses in the world in the annual World Thoroughbred Rankings. Upon his retirement, he was compared favorably as one of the greatest racing geldings of all time, along with Kelso, John Henry and Forego.

Game On Dude is a dark bay gelding with no white markings on his face and pastern-high socks on both hind legs. He was bred by the Adena Springs stud of Paris, Kentucky. He was sired by the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Awesome Again, whose other major winners include Ghostzapper, Oxbow, Wilko and Paynter. Game On Dude is the second recorded foal of his dam Worldly Pleasure, a mare who won eight of her thirty-one races between 2003 and 2005. As a descendant of the broodmare Adjournment, Worldly Pleasure was a distant relative of the Preakness Stakes winner Master Derby.