Arklow

Arklow finished fourth and eighth in the Lecomte Stakes and Risen Star Stakes, respectively, during his 3-year-old campaign before switching to the turf and earning his first career victory. He followed with an impressive win in the Grade 2 American Turf Stakes Presented by Ram Trucks. He closed his 30year-old season with back-to-back unplaced finishes against graded-stakes competition.

Arklow opened his 4-year-old season with an allowance victory at Fair Grounds before finishing second at the New Orleans track in the Grade 2 Muniz Memorial Handicap in March. The bay son of Arch then ran fourth in both the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic Stakes on yielding turf at Churchill Downs and the Grade 3 Stars and Stripes Stakes at Arlington Park. He regained his winning form with a narrow win in the Kentucky Downs Preview Calumet Farm Turf Cup Stakes in August at Ellis Park before a powerful victory by three-quarters of a length in the Grade 3 Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes on Sept. 8. 

In his next start, Arklow made a midrace move and was in contention with a sixteenth to go in the 1 ½-mile Grade 3 Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 19 but had to settle for second behind Zulu Alpha. Arklow finished fourth in the Grade 1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf in his final start in 2018.

After unseating his rider in an allowance race in April at Keeneland in his season debut, Arklow finished second by a neck in both the Grade 1 Man o' War Stakes and Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park in May and June, respectively. He ran in the top three in his next two starts, both in graded stakes races, before halting a seven-race winless stretch and earning his first Grade 1 win with a hard-fought, half-length victory over pacesetter Channel Cat and Sadler's Joy in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes Oct. 5 at Belmont. Arklow closed his 5-year-old season with an eighth-place finish in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Unplaced in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes Presented by Runhappy in his first race of 2020, Arklow followed with a second in the Grade 3 Louisville Stakes in June. Three starts later he snapped a five-race winless stretch with a powerful victory in the $1 million Calumet Farm Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes, his second win in three years in the signature race at the Kentucky Downs meeting.

Arklow next finished sixth in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland, but wheeled back at the end of November to pick up another marquee victory when he shipped west to Del Mar and took the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes, the fifth graded stakes win of his career.

In his 2021 debut, Arklow was the 1.30-1 favorite in the Grade 3 Louisville Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 15. With a strong, wide middle move, he hit the front at the top of the stretch and drew off to victory. A few months later, he finished second by a neck in the Grade 2 Calumet Turf Cup Stakes, narrowly missing in his bid for a second consecutive win in that race.