Get Smokin

Get Smokin, a Get Stormy gelding owned by the Mary Abeel Sullivan Revocable Trust and trained by Thomas Bush, won his second career start at Belmont Park in a one-mile turf race by a length and began 2020 with two second-place finishes and one third-place finish in stakes races at Gulfstream Park. During the summer, he notched another runner-up finish in a stakes race, this time finishing behind heavy favorite Decorated Invader in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga.

After finishing last of eight in the Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes, Get Smokin turned his form around in a big way by taking the Oct. 18 Grade 2 Hill Prince Stakes on yielding turf at Belmont Park, besting familiar foe and odds-on favorite Decorated Invader by a head.

In his final start as a 3-year-old, Get Smokin set the pace in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and led into deep stretch at 30.40-1 odds but faded just a bit late and finished fourth, beaten by three-quarters of a length by winner Domestic Spending.

Get Smokin made his 4-year-old debut in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes Feb. 6, 2021, and stalked pacesetter Proven Strategies in the 1 1/16-mile race. He seized command nearing the top of the stretch and opened a clear advantage before holding off the late rush of fast-closing Eons to prevail. He picked up another stakes win in the Seek Again Stakes at Belmont on May 22, going gate-to-wire as the lone speed on paper. he made his final start of 2021 with a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Poker Stakes at Belmont Park on June 20.

Get Smokin returned to the race for his 5-year-old campaign with an attempt to repeat in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes, but settled for a second-place finish Feb. 5, 2022 at Tampa Bay Downs. That turned out to be his best finish in six outings in 2022, which also included a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Arlington Stakes on June 4 at Churchill Downs.

Get Smokin added another couple of Graded stakes in-the-money finishes during his 6-year-old season during 2023, including another second-place finish in the Grade 3 Arlington Stakes on June 3 at Churchill Downs and then a second-place finish in the Grade 2 Wise Dan Stakes on July 1 at Ellis Park.

Following a fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Downs Preview Turf Cup Stakes at Ellis Park on Aug. 6, Get Smokin was sent to Kentucky Downs for what would be his career-best victory in his next race when he was victorious in the Grade 2 $1.7 million FanDuel Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes on Sept. 9. Sent off as a 19-1 longshot in a 12-horse field in the Kentucky Cup, Get Smokin was sent right to the front to establish a solo comfortable lead by jockey Fernando De La Cruz and never faced a serious challenge for the entirety of the 1 1/2-mile race en route to a wire-to-wire victory.

Get Smokin is out of the winning Smoke Glacken mare Hookah Lady and is from the family of champion and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Dayatthespa.