Gift Box (foaled March 23rd, 2013) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2019

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Career

Gift Box's first race was on August 22nd, 2015 at Saratoga, where he came in third. He picked up his next win in his second race at

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on October 3rd, 2015. He came in 3rd place in his first graded race, at the Grade 2

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on November 28th, 2015. He then picked up another win at Belmont on May 26th, 2015. His next win did not come until March 24th, 2018, when he won at the Aqueduct. He turned his career around when he won the Grade-2

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on December 26th, 2018. This was his first victory in a graded race. His next race was on April 6th, 2019. He competed in his second Grade-1 race, this time at the

, where he was victorious. He came in 2nd at the May 27th, 2019

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and then came in 4th at the June 15th, 2019

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. However, he competed in one last race in 2019 - the December 28th, 2019

, where he won the race for the second time.

Pedigree

References

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