Will Take Charge

Will Take Charge
Will Take Charge at the 2013 Preakness Stakes
Sire	Unbridled's Song
Grandsire	Unbridled
Dam	Take Charge Lady
Damsire	Dehere
Sex	Colt
Foaled	13 April 2010
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Eaton Sales
Owner	Willis D. Horton
Trainer	D. Wayne Lukas
Record	21:7–6–1
Earnings	$3,924,648
Major wins
Rebel Stakes (2013) Travers Stakes (2013) Pennsylvania Derby (2013) Clark Handicap (2013) Oaklawn Handicap (2014)
Awards
American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (2013)

Will Take Charge (foaled April 13, 2010) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse. Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, the horse is best known for his wins in the 2013 Travers Stakes and Clark Handicap and for being beaten a nose in the 2013 Breeders' Cup Classic. He was named American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse for 2013. He was retired in September, 2014, anticipated to stand at stud at Three Chimneys Farm.

Will Take Charge is a chestnut colt with a broad white blaze and three high white stockings who stands over 17 hands (68 inches, 173 cm), making him an unusually large Thoroughbred. He was sired by the Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Unbridled's Song, whose other major winners included the sprinter Zensational and the Breeders' Cup winners Unrivaled Belle and Unbridled Elaine. Will Take Charge's dam, Take Charge Lady, was a top-class race mare whose wins included the Ashland Stakes and successive runnings of the Spinster Stakes. She is also the dam of the Florida Derby winner Take Charge Indy.

In September 2011, the yearling was consigned by the Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency to the Keeneland sales where he was bought for $425,000 by Willis D. Horton. of Three Chimneys Farm. The colt was sent into training with the veteran D. Wayne Lukas.