Grand Slam (horse)

Grand Slam
Sire	Gone West
Grandsire	Mr. Prospector
Dam	Bright Candles
Damsire	El Gran Senor
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1995
Died	March 31, 2012
Country	United States
Colour	Dark Bay
Breeder	Overbrook Farm
Owner	Robert & Christina Baker, William Mack, David Cornstein, Michael Tabor, John Magnier
Trainer	D. Wayne Lukas
Record	15: 4-5-2
Earnings	$901,292
Major wins
Champagne Stakes (1997) Belmont Futurity Stakes (1997) Peter Pan Stakes (1998)
Last updated on December 3, 2007

Grand Slam (foaled 1995 in Kentucky, died March 31, 2012) was an American thoroughbred racehorse.

Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, the dark bay son of Gone West was purchased at the September 1996 Keeneland Sales as a yearling for $300,000 by Robert & Christina Baker, William Mack and David Cornstein.

Grand Slam was sired by Gone West and out of Bright Candles.

David Cornstein's wife Sheila named the colt after a bridge hand in which all 13 tricks are taken. In 1997 Coolmore Stud purchased half of the colt for $500,000.

A two-time Grade I winner as a juvenile, all four of the colt's career wins came over the dirt at Belmont Park.

At age two, the colt won the Belmont Futurity Stakes in September and Champagne Stakes in October, both Grade I races. Then in the 1997 Breeders' Cup Juvenile in November at Hollywood Park, he suffered a cut in his left hind leg going into the first turn and did not finish the race. He would end up missing four months of racing while recovering from his injury.

His first start back from injury was at Santa Anita in the San Pedro Stakes where he finished sixth. A month later he finished third in the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland and in May he won the Peter Pan Stakes.

The colt failed to win another race in his career, although after a 7th-place finish in the Belmont Stakes he managed a third-place finish in the Haskell Invitational as well as second-place finishes in the Swaps Stakes, Jerome Handicap, and 1998 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs.

...
Wikipedia