California Chrome sibling
By Tapit out of Love the Chase, Fort McHenry is entered for the tag in a one-mile optional claiming event that goes as the third race at 2:25 p.m. ET. Trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed the “first-time gelding” designation for Fort McHenry on the Aqueduct overnight but declined further comment. Fort McHenry was purchased at the 2018 Keeneland September yearling sale by M.V. Magnier and is campaigned by the longstanding Coolmore-connected partnership group of Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith. He was fifth on debut at Saratoga last August and earned his diploma Nov. 2 in his third start at Gulfstream Park West. Fort McHenry was then sent most recently to stakes company for Gulfstream Park's Nov. 30 Smooth Air, a one-mile event before which Pletcher called him “an exciting colt” who was “starting to put things together.” That optimism didn’t transfer to race day, however. Fort McHenry was in the second flight for the opening half mile of the Smooth Air, he chased around the turn and then faded down the stretch to finish ninth of 10 beaten some 25 lengths.
Fort McHenry is the fifth foal out of Love the Chase. Her first, Perry Martin and Steve Coburn’s California Chrome, earned $14,752,650 on the racetrack on his way to Horse of the Year designations in 2014 and 2016. A winner of 16 of 27 starts with six Grade 1 scores, California Chrome's first progeny will hit the racetrack this spring in the U.S., while the stallion himself recently relocated to Japan.
Fort McHenry is the fifth foal out of Love the Chase. Her first, Perry Martin and Steve Coburn’s California Chrome, earned $14,752,650 on the racetrack on his way to Horse of the Year designations in 2014 and 2016. A winner of 16 of 27 starts with six Grade 1 scores, California Chrome's first progeny will hit the racetrack this spring in the U.S., while the stallion himself recently relocated to Japan.
