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Perfect Drift
Perfect Drift (April 29, 1999 – January 4, 2024) was an American thoroughbred racehorse who won or placed in 21 stakes races in his career. He won the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap in 2003, as well as the Washington Park Handicap in 2003 and 2005.
Foaled in Kentucky, Perfect Drift was a bay gelding sired by the leading stallion Dynaformer, out of the Naskra mare Nice Gal. Perfect Drift was owned by Stonecrest Farm and bred by Stonecrest owner and heart surgeon Dr. William A. Reed. He was trained by Murray Johnson at Trackside Stable in Louisville, Kentucky.
Perfect Drift started 50 times, winning 11, placing in 13, coming third in 6, and finishing finishing in the money in approximately 75 percent of those starts.
Perfect Drift won on both dirt and turf, at distances ranging from 6½ furlongs to 1 and a quarter miles. He raced on at least 12 tracks and recorded Beyer Speed Figures of 100 or more on many occasions.
In 2002, he won the Grade II Spiral Stakes, the Grade III Indiana Derby (which became a Grade II event by 2006) and the Turfway Prevue Stakes, and came home second in the WEBN Frog Stakes, the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes. He ran third in the Kentucky Derby, where he checked by War Emblem and forced to alter course to the outside, alloweing Proud Citizen to take second.
In 2003, with War Emblem retired for lucrative stallion duties in Japan, Perfect Drift won the Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap, the Grade II Washington Park Handicap, the Grade II Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap and the Grade II Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap.
In 2004, he placed in the Grade I Whitney Handicap, the Pacific Classic Stakes, the Hawthorne Gold Cup, the Grade III Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap and the Grade III Alysheba Stakes, and was third in the Clark Handicap and his second Stephen Foster.
In 2005, he took the Washington Park Handicap for the second time (setting a new record), and was again second in the Grade I Pacific Classic Stakes, the Stephen Foster, the Grade I Breeders' Cup Classic, and the Clark Handicap.
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Perfect Drift
Perfect Drift (April 29, 1999 – January 4, 2024) was an American thoroughbred racehorse who won or placed in 21 stakes races in his career. He won the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap in 2003, as well as the Washington Park Handicap in 2003 and 2005.
Foaled in Kentucky, Perfect Drift was a bay gelding sired by the leading stallion Dynaformer, out of the Naskra mare Nice Gal. Perfect Drift was owned by Stonecrest Farm and bred by Stonecrest owner and heart surgeon Dr. William A. Reed. He was trained by Murray Johnson at Trackside Stable in Louisville, Kentucky.
Perfect Drift started 50 times, winning 11, placing in 13, coming third in 6, and finishing finishing in the money in approximately 75 percent of those starts.
Perfect Drift won on both dirt and turf, at distances ranging from 6½ furlongs to 1 and a quarter miles. He raced on at least 12 tracks and recorded Beyer Speed Figures of 100 or more on many occasions.
In 2002, he won the Grade II Spiral Stakes, the Grade III Indiana Derby (which became a Grade II event by 2006) and the Turfway Prevue Stakes, and came home second in the WEBN Frog Stakes, the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes. He ran third in the Kentucky Derby, where he checked by War Emblem and forced to alter course to the outside, alloweing Proud Citizen to take second.
In 2003, with War Emblem retired for lucrative stallion duties in Japan, Perfect Drift won the Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap, the Grade II Washington Park Handicap, the Grade II Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap and the Grade II Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap.
In 2004, he placed in the Grade I Whitney Handicap, the Pacific Classic Stakes, the Hawthorne Gold Cup, the Grade III Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap and the Grade III Alysheba Stakes, and was third in the Clark Handicap and his second Stephen Foster.
In 2005, he took the Washington Park Handicap for the second time (setting a new record), and was again second in the Grade I Pacific Classic Stakes, the Stephen Foster, the Grade I Breeders' Cup Classic, and the Clark Handicap.
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