My Racehorse’s Kentucky-bred Seize the Grey gave his 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh career Preakness Stakes (G1) victory on Saturday, May 18 at Pimlico Race Course.
Owned by 2,570 shareholders in My Racehorse, Seize the Grey, under jockey Jaime Torres, broke sharply and proved uncatchable over the muddy surface. He never relinquished his early lead en route to a 2 ¼-length win over Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness, the second jewel of the Triple Crown. He covered the distance in 1:56.82. Lukas said he would wait 48 hours before deciding if Seize the Grey would run in the June 8 Belmont Stakes (G1), the third jewel of the Triple Crown that will be run at Saratoga
“It doesn’t get old. It’s still the same,” said Lukas. “In 1980, I had the first one here I ever ran, and it still feels the same.”
Lukas, whose first Preakness win came in his 1980 debut with Codex, also won with Tank’s Prospect (1985), Tabasco Cat (1994), Timber Country (1995), Charismatic (1999), and Oxbow (2013).
Seize the Grey, bred in the Bluegrass by Jamm LTD, was a $300,000 acquisition at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. A son of the late Arrogate out of the Smart Strike mare Smart Shopping, Seize the Grey won the Pat Day Mile (G2) on the Kentucky Derby undercard in his previous start. Seize the Grey is now a winner in four of 10 lifetime starts with earnings of more than $1.8 million.