Up to the Mark
Bay Colt / February 27th, 2019 in KY / by Not This Time out of Belle's Finale
$2,427,650
2023 earnings
124
speed figure
71%
2023 wins
racing Record
2023 Stats
Career Stats
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5
Firsts
6
1
Seconds
1
1
Thirds
2
0
Unplaced
3
7
Starts
12
$2,427,650
Earnings
$2,511,050
$346,807
Earnings / Start
$209,254
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Bio
Up to the Mark began his career with a sparkling 4 ¼-length win in a three-quarter-mile sprint July 21, 2022, at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher and co-owners Repole Stable and St Elias Stable, which purchased him for $450,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September yearling sale.
The Not This Time colt faded late to finish third in his second start going one mile later during the 2022 summer meet at Saratoga and then was unplaced in his final three races as a 3-year-old at distances ranging from seven-eighths of a mile to 1 1/8 miles.
Up to the Mark began his career with a sparkling 4 ¼-length win in a three-quarter-mile sprint July 21, 2022, at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher and co-owners Repole Stable and St Elias Stable, which purchased him for $450,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September yearling sale.
The Not This Time colt faded late to finish third in his second start going one mile later during the 2022 summer meet at Saratoga and then was unplaced in his final three races as a 3-year-old at distances ranging from seven-eighths of a mile to 1 1/8 miles.
Transferred to the turf for his 4-year-old debut, Up to the Mark immediately showed improvement with a four-length win Jan. 28, 2023, at Gulfstream Park in a one-mile race on the grass. He won again on the turf at 1 1/16 miles March 4 before finishing third in his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes April 14 at Keeneland.
Pletcher kept him in stakes company for his next race and this time Up to the Mark proved much the best in winning the $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes on the May 6 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve undercard at Churchill Downs.
The next start for Up to the Mark came in the Grade 1 $750,000 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes on June 10 at Belmont Park. Sent off as the 8-5 favorite on the tote board in a field of 10 horses in the Manhattan, Up to the Mark stalked the pace in mid-pack all the way and used a quick and devastating turn of foot to burst to the lead at the top of the stretch to draw off and win by 2 3/4 lengths in a time of 1:59.31 for the 1 1/4 miles on firm turf.
Up to the Mark was produced by the unraced Ghostzapper mare Belle’s Finale, a full-sister (same dam [mother], same sire [father]) to Grade 3-placed stakes winner and stakes producer Zapper Belle.
