Point Given
The first Thoroughbred in history to win four consecutive million-dollar races.
Quick Facts
Earnings
$3.97 million
Record
13 starts, 9-3-0
Retired
2001
Point Given was the first Thoroughbred in history to win four consecutive million-dollar races.
Massive, powerful, consistent, determined, and sometimes hard to handle, Point Given showed early on that he had speed and stamina: two essential elements for a horse vying for the Triple Crown.
As a two-year-old, Point Given gave notice that he was a force to be reckoned with, winning the Hollywood Futurity and Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes.
He ended an already impressive two-year-old season with an electrifying second in the 2000 Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Stakes. Even though he came up a nostril short, his stretch run gave viewers a hint of what the powerful chestnut would accomplish.
The Big Red Train began his three-year-old season as expected, with easy victories in Derby prep races, making him the horse to watch in the upcoming Triple Crown races.
Point Given entered the Churchill Downs starting gate as the 9-5 favorite. He tracked the leaders while chasing a blistering pace, but weakened in the Derby stretch, finishing a disappointing fifth.
His fifth-place finish in the 2001 Derby was the only off-the-board finish in his entire career.
The “real” Point Given showed up in the Preakness Stakes, where he took command early to win easily.
Five weeks later, his stretch run in the Belmont Stakes brought back memories of another stellar chestnut: Secretariat. Point Given trounced the competition in the Belmont Stakes, winning by more than 12 lengths.
Point Given earned an Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year in 2001 and was inducted into the National Horse Racing Museum and Hall of Fame in 2010.
Gary Stevens visited Point Given in retirement at Three Chimneys Farm, calling him “the best horse never to win a Triple Crown.”
Point Given was the favorite in all three Triple Crown races.
Notable Wins
2001
Santa Anita Derby
Preakness Stakes
Belmont Stakes
Haskell Stakes
Travers Stakes
Successful Offspring
Sealy Hill (CAN)
Horse of the Year • Winner of Triple Tiara • Grade I producer
Go Between
Coil
Point Ashley
Fifteen Love
Points of Grace
Call Me George
Point Determined
Pump Up (JPN)
Hishi Polaris (JPN)
Gary Stevens, Jockey
Facts
Earnings
$3.97 million
Record
13 starts, 9-3-0
Retired
2001
Pedigree
Thunder Gulch, Turko’s Turn
Nickname
PG
Attributes
Chestnut Stallion
Foaled
1998
Height
17.2 hands
Trainer
Bob Baffert
Breeders
The Thoroughbred Corporation
Owners
Jockey
Gary Stevens
2001 Horse of the Year & Champion 3-year-old
Hall of Champion Resident
2001 – 2023
