War Story
Chestnut Gelding / March 24th, 2012 in KY / by Northern Afleet out of Belle Watling
$287,000
2020 earnings
124
speed figure
0%
2020 wins
racing Record
2020 Stats
Career Stats
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Firsts
8
0
Seconds
7
1
Thirds
6
1
Unplaced
19
2
Starts
40
$287,000
Earnings
$3,271,996
$143,500
Earnings / Start
$81,800
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Bio
A winner of his first two races, War Story took a step up to graded stakes competition in his third start. He didn't win, but he also didn't embarrass himself, finishing second behind International Star in the Risen Star. A little over a month later, War Story again hit the board in a graded stakes race, finishing third in the Louisiana Derby and punching his ticket to the Kentucky Derby.
A winner of his first two races, War Story took a step up to graded stakes competition in his third start. He didn't win, but he also didn't embarrass himself, finishing second behind International Star in the Risen Star. A little over a month later, War Story again hit the board in a graded stakes race, finishing third in the Louisiana Derby and punching his ticket to the Kentucky Derby.
War Story won two races in 2016, including his final start of the year in the Queen's County Stakes at Aqueduct. That set him up for a planned start in the $12-million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28, 2017. After finishing fifth in the Pegasus and another graded stakes race at Belmont, War Story ran third in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic. He then regained his winning form in the Grade 2 Brooklyn Invitational Stakes on the 2017 Belmont Stakes undercard. War Story subsequently finished fourth in three straight Grade 1 races to close his 5-year-old campaign: the Whitney Stakes, Woodward Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets, and Breeders' Cup Classic.
In 2018, War Story won one of eight starts, taking the Challenger Stakes at Pampa Bay Downs in his second start of the year. He also ran second in three graded stakes, including the Charles Town Classic.
In his 7-year-old bow, War Story placed in the Charles Town Classic for the third straight year, rallying for third in the $1 million race. He was unplaced in the Grade 2 Brooklyn but bounced back to snap his eight-race winless stretch with a hard-fought victory by a neck in the Grade 3 Monmouth Cup Stakes on the July 20 TVG.com Haskell Invitational Stakes undercard.
After finishing sixth in the TVG Pacific Classic Stakes, War Story ran second in the Grade 3 Greenwood Cup Stakes for the second straight year. He capped his 7-year-old season with a 1 1/2-length win in the Grade 3 Harlan's Holiday Stakes Dec. 14 at Gulfstream.
War Story returned for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Presented by Runhappy Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park and closed willingly to finish third.
War Story is out of a half-sister to three stakes winners. He is the second foal from his dam, with his brother Draw Two winning over $219,000. Farther back in War Story's pedigree is the champion and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Epitome, who is a half sister to his second dam. War Story's sire, Northern Afleet is the sire of 2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex and U.S. champion Amazombie.
