AUTHENTIC RETIRED 10 Nov 2020 09:06
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three-year-old Authentic, an impressive winner of Saturday’s G1 Breeders’ Cup
Classic, has been retired.
The son of champion
sire Into Mischief will join his sire at Spendthrift Farm next year where
Authentic’s first year fee has been set at $75 000.
Authentic ended his
racing career with a 6-2-0 record out of eight starts and earnings of
$6,191,200. He won his only start at 2 and became a stakes winner in the Sham
Stakes (G3) in his 2020 debut at Santa Anita Park.
On a convoluted trail
to a Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserves (G1), Authentic
captured the San Felipe Stakes (G2) and the TVG.com Haskell Stakes (G1) and was
runner-up in the Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1). Concerns that a son of Into
Mischief could not win at the American classic distance of 1 1/4 miles allowed
Authentic to go off at 8-1 in the Kentucky Derby, which he won gate-to-wire by
1 1/4 lengths in 2:00.61.
He went on to finish
second to Swiss Skydiver in the Preakness Stakes (G1) before capping off his
career with a win over one of deepest fields to start in the Breeders’ Cup
Classic. Again he went gate-to-wire in the Classic, shook off a late challenge
by four-time grade 1 winner and 4-year-old Improbable , and won by 2 1/4
lengths in 1:59.19
