Skip Away, was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1998 Horse of the Year, 1996 Champion Three-Year-Old, and 1997 and 1998 Champion Handicap Horse.
10 Facts About Skip Away
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Skip Away won 10 Grade One races for $9,616,360 in prize money.
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The son of Skip Trial, out of the Diplomat's Way mare Ingot Way, Skip Away was purchased for the modest sum of $30,000 at a two-year-olds in training sale in Ocala, Florida by Hall of Fame trainer Hubert "Sonny" Hine for his wife.
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Skip Away won one of six starts as a two-year-old, placing in the Cowdin and Remsen Stakes at Belmont Park.
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Skip Away won the 1996 Haskell Invitational Handicap and in October of that year, he defeated Cigar, winner of 17 of his previous 18 races, in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
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Skip Away was retired to stud that fall with 18 wins and 34 in-the-money finishes from 38 career starts and earnings of $9,616,360.
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At age seventeen, Skip Away died of an apparent heart attack in his paddock on May 14,2010 at Hopewell Farm in Midway, Kentucky.
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Skip Away is interred at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Skip Away was inducted into National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2004.
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In 2001, Gulfstream Park Racetrack in Hallandale Beach, Florida honored Skip Away by renaming its Broward Handicap the Skip Away Handicap.