Skip Away
| Skip Away | |
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| Sire | Skip Trial |
| Grandsire | Bailjumper |
| Dam | Ingot Way |
| Damsire | Diplomat Way |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 4 April 1993 |
| Died | 14 May 2010 |
| Country | USA |
| Colour | Gray |
| Breeder | Anna Maria Barnhart |
| Owner | Carolyn Hine |
| Trainer | Sonny Hine |
| Record | 38: 18-10-6 |
| Earnings | $9,616,360 |
| Major wins | |
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Blue Grass Stakes (1996) Preakness Stakes 2nd (1996) |
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| Awards | |
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U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1996) U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1997 & 1998) United States Horse of the Year (1998) |
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| Honours | |
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United States Racing Hall of Fame (2004) #32 – Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Skip Away Handicap at Gulfstream Park Skip Away Stakes at Monmouth Park |
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| Last updated on 22 January 2011 | |
Blue Grass Stakes (1996)
Woodbine Million (1996)
Haskell Invitational Handicap (1996)
Ohio Derby (1996)
Breeders' Cup Classic (1997)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1996 & 1997)
Massachusetts Handicap (1997 & 1998)
Pimlico Special (1998)
Woodward Stakes (1998)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1998)
Gulfstream Park Handicap (1998)
Donn Handicap (1998)
Skip Away (April 4, 1993 – May 14, 2010), a gray Thoroughbred race horse, was named America's Champion 3 Year Old Male in 1996 and twice (1997, 1998) named America's Champion Handicap Horse. He won 10 Grade 1 races for $9,616,360 in prize money.
He was bred by Anna Marie Barnhart and foaled and reared at Hilmer Schmidt’s Indian Hill Farm in Florida, the son of Skip Trial, out of the Diplomat's Way mare Ingot Way. Skip Away was purchased for the modest sum of $30,000 at a two-year-olds in training sale in Ocala by Hall of Fame trainer Hubert "Sonny" Hine for his wife Carolyn, who had particularly wanted a gray horse because vision problems made it difficult for her to see any other kind on the race track.
Skip Away won one of six starts as a two-year-old, placing in the Cowdin and Remsen Stakes at Belmont Park. His first stakes win came as a three-year-old, when he defeated eventual Preakness Stakes winner Louis Quatorze by six lengths in the Blue Grass Stakes while setting a new stakes record over a wet-fast track at Keeneland Race Course.
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