Union Rags
| Union Rags | |
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Union Rags (right) winning 2012 Belmont Stakes over Paynter.
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| Sire | Dixie Union |
| Grandsire | Dixieland Band |
| Dam | Tempo |
| Damsire | Gone West |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Phyllis Mills Wyeth |
| Owner | Chadds Ford Stable |
| Trainer | Michael R. Matz |
| Record | 8: 5-1-1 |
| Earnings | US$1,798,800 |
| Major wins | |
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Champagne Stakes (2011) Belmont Stakes (2012) |
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Champagne Stakes (2011)
Saratoga Special Stakes (2011)
Fountain of Youth Stakes (2012)
Union Rags (foaled March 3, 2009 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred race horse and winner of the 2012 Belmont Stakes. Trained by Michael Matz, Union Rags was one of the leading American two-year-olds of 2011 whose wins included the Champagne Stakes and the Saratoga Special Stakes. Despite a defeat in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile he was one of the early favorites for the 2012 Kentucky Derby, but finished seventh, following a poor start. Skipping the Preakness Stakes, he won the Belmont by a neck over the Bob Baffert-trained colt Paynter. Union Rags was retired from racing in July 2012 after a tendon injury. He entered stud for the 2013 breeding season and his first crop reached racing age in 2016.
Union Rags is a bay with a white blaze sired by Dixie Union who won the Haskell Invitational Handicap in 2000 before becoming a successful stallion. His dam, Tempo, was a granddaughter of the 1000 Guineas winner Glad Rags. Union Rags was bred by Phyllis Mills Wyeth, 71 (in 2012), whose parents Alice du Pont and James Mills were prominent owners and breeders of Thoroughbreds. Wyeth, who is married to artist Jamie Wyeth, was a steeplechase rider when young, but at age 20 suffered a broken neck and spinal cord damage in an automobile accident. Initially able to walk with braces, she has used a motorized chair for many years. Wyeth initially sold Union Rags as a yearling, on the advice of tax accountants, but repurchased the horse the next year. She races Union Rags under her nom de course, Chadds Ford Stable.
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