Midnight Lute | |
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Sire | Real Quiet |
Grandsire | Quiet American |
Dam | Candytuft |
Damsire | Dehere |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 2003 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Dark Bay |
Breeder | Tom Evans, Macon Wilmil Equines & Marjac Farms, Inc. |
Owner | Michael E. Pegram and Watson and Weitman Performance, LLC |
Trainer | Bob Baffert |
Record | 12: 6-3-1 |
Earnings | US$2,690,600 |
Major wins | |
Perryville Stakes (2006) Breeders' Cup Sprint (2007, 2008) |
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Awards | |
American Champion Sprint Horse (2007) |
Perryville Stakes (2006)
Forego Handicap (2007)
Midnight Lute (foaled May 13, 2003, in Versailles, Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was named American Champion Sprint Horse in 2007.
Midnight Lute was bred by Tom Evans, Macon Wilmil Equines & Marjac Farms, Inc. and owned during his racing career by Michael E. Pegram and Watson and Weitman Performance, LLC. He was named for Lute Olson, the University of Arizona basketball coach. He was sired by the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Real Quiet and was out of the mare Candytuft. His damsire is Dehere, a multiple stakes winner and the 1993 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. Midnight Lute was sold as a yearling for $70,000 at the Keeneland September sales. He was trained by three-time Kentucky Derby winner, Bob Baffert.
Midnight Lute won the Grade 3 Perryville Stakes at Keeneland Race Course on October 13, 2006, in track-record time. He collected his first Grade I win on September 1, 2007, while setting a new stakes record in the Forego Handicap at Saratoga Race Course.