Gimme Da Lute (March 13, 2012 – November 6, 2015) was an American

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and graded stakes winner.

Career

Gimme Da Lute won his first race in his second start at age three. After that he won the Echo Eddie Stakes then followed that with third-place finishes in the

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and

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. He got his first big stakes victory in the Affirmed Handicap after which he won the

Los Alamitos Derby The Los Alamitos Derby (formerly the Swaps Stakes) is a race for Thoroughbred horses run annually at Los Alamitos Race Course in Los Alamitos, California. The race is open to three-year-old horses and is contested at one and one-eighth miles on the ...

, the most important victory in his career. Gimme Da Lute only ran two more times after that with wins in the Real Good Deal Stakes for California-bred 3-year-olds, and the

El Cajon Stakes The Shared Belief Stakes (formerly the El Cajon Stakes) is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of August or the first week of September at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to three-year-old horses, th ...

Death

After he won the El Cajon, Gimme Da Lute suffered a hind leg fracture while working out at

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. A week later he underwent surgery that at first seemed to be successful. However, the colt fractured his leg again coming out of surgery and had to be euthanized.

Honors

In February 2016 Gimme Da Lute was posthumously voted the title of

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References

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