TOP 7: PROXY

Horse Profile


Characteristics


Major Won Races


Achievements


Rankings


Retirement Plan

Horse Profile

• Foaled: April 25, 2018 
• Bred: Kentucky, U.S. 
• Sex: stallion 
• Debuted: 2020 
• Retired: 2024 
• Death: N/A 
• Color and Markings: bay 

• Sire: Tapit 
• Dam: Panty Raid 

• Owner: Godolphin, LLC 
• Breeder: Godolphin 
• Trainer: Michael Stidham 
• Primary/ Regular Jockeys:  Joel Rosario 

Characteristics

• With a twinkle in his eye, Michael Stidham couldn’t hide his admiration for Proxy, describing him as not just a nice horse but a dream to work with, obedient, easy to deal and a true gem in the stable. 
• Michael Banahan, Godolphin America’s Lexington-based director of Bloodstock, said that Proxy is a very late foal, a big and tall horse, and a late-charging horse in most of his races.  
• Proxy’s adaptability and tactical intelligence on the track are artistic. Like a seasoned performer, he possesses an innate flair for navigating the flux of the race, intuitively sensing when to hold back and when to unleash his full power, and adapting to the race’s rhythm, shifting tactics when the unexpected happens. 
• Proxy could perform well in races from when he was a 2-year-old until his 5-year-old racing season, delivering performances that narrate a story of growth, resilience, and sheer equine elegance. 

Major Won Races

• 
  Clark S. presented by Norton Healthcare
• 
  Oaklawn Handicap
• 
  Monmouth Cup Stakes

Achievements

• He garnered a 103 Beyer Speed Figure from Daily Racing Form.

• He earned a Top TimeformUS speed figure of 121 and 106 for the HRN speed figure.

Rankings

• Ranked 51st by Earnings – 2022 
• Ranked 7th by Earnings – 2023 

Retirement Plan

Proxy will retire in 2024 to Darley’s Jonabell Farm, completing a line-up of 13 stallions. 

Horse Profile

• Foaled: April 25, 2018 
• Bred: Kentucky, U.S. 
• Sex: stallion 
• Debuted: 2020 
• Retired: 2024 
• Death: N/A 
• Color and Markings: bay 

• Sire: Tapit 
• Dam: Panty Raid 

• Owner: Godolphin, LLC 
• Breeder: Godolphin 
• Trainer: Michael Stidham 
• Primary/ Regular Jockeys:  Joel Rosario 

Characteristics

• With a twinkle in his eye, Michael Stidham couldn’t hide his admiration for Proxy, describing him as not just a nice horse but a dream to work with, obedient, easy to deal and a true gem in the stable. 
• Michael Banahan, Godolphin America’s Lexington-based director of Bloodstock, said that Proxy is a very late foal, a big and tall horse, and a late-charging horse in most of his races.  
• Proxy’s adaptability and tactical intelligence on the track are artistic. Like a seasoned performer, he possesses an innate flair for navigating the flux of the race, intuitively sensing when to hold back and when to unleash his full power, and adapting to the race’s rhythm, shifting tactics when the unexpected happens. 
• Proxy could perform well in races from when he was a 2-year-old until his 5-year-old racing season, delivering performances that narrate a story of growth, resilience, and sheer equine elegance. 

Major Won Races

• 
  Clark S. presented by Norton Healthcare
• 
  Oaklawn Handicap
• 
  Monmouth Cup Stakes

Achievements

• He garnered a 103 Beyer Speed Figure from Daily Racing Form.

• He earned a Top TimeformUS speed figure of 121 and 106 for the HRN speed figure.

Rankings

• Ranked 51st by Earnings – 2022 
• Ranked 7th by Earnings – 2023 

Retirement Plan

Proxy will retire in 2024 to Darley’s Jonabell Farm, completing a line-up of 13 stallions. 

Proxy Connections

• Jockey: Joel Rosario 

• • Most of Proxy’s races were guided by Jockey Joel Rosario – 8 races. 
  • Joel Rosario ranked 59th in wins and 6th in earnings in 2023. 
  • He ranked 21st in wins and 3rd in earnings in 2022.  
  • He also has a vast career earnings of more than $314 million. 

• Jockey: John Velazquez  

• • The second most of Proxy’s races were guided by Jockey John Velazquez – 4 races.  
  • John Velazquez is one of horse racing’s best jockeys. He guided Proxy in his Risen Star and Louisiana Derby performances. Velazquez has a career record with more than 6,250 wins from 34,000-plus starts. He has enormous career earnings of more than $435million. 

• Trainer: Michael Stidham 

• • Michael Stidham is a multiple-graded stakes winner and one of the leading trainers in the 2021 season. 
  • Proxy’s stablemates under Stidham include Mystic Guide, Micheline, and Pixelate. 
  • He ranked 30th in earnings and 100th in wins in 2023. 
  • He ranked 84th in wins and 35th in earnings in 2022. 

• • He ranked 30th in earnings and 74th in wins in 2021. 
  • He ranked 17th by wins and 22nd by earnings in 2020 

• Owner: Godolphin, LLC 

• • The ownership group has a career record of over 250 wins and above $19 million in earnings. 
  • Godolphin won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner in 2020. 
  • Godolphin is ranked 1st by earnings consecutively for three years from 2021 to 2023, while second by earnings in 2020.  
  • They ranked 5th by wins in both 2022 and 2023. Only ranked 6th by wins in 2021 and ranked 8th in 2020. 

Racing Career

Pedigree

SIRE: Tapit

• Although Tapit has tremendous stamina sources, he could not create a legendary racing career. However, he is known to be a legendary sire. 
• He broke a North American sire’s single-season progeny earnings record in three consecutive years (2014-2016). Tapit became the first North American stallion to surpass US$16 million in progeny earnings for a single season in 2014, the first North American stallion to surpass US$18 million in single-season progeny earnings in 2015, and the first North American stallion to exceed US$19 million in single-season progeny earnings in 2016. 
• He also broke Danzig’s 24-year-old single-season progeny earnings record for a first-crop sire of US$2,155,216, setting a new mark of US$2,811,337.  
• Tapit’s dam, Tap Your Heels, is a stakes-winning mare. 
• Tapit’s grandsire is A.P. Indy, the 1992 Horse of the Year and an outstanding sire.  
• A.P. Indy is also the son of a Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, and out of Weekend Surprise, whose sire was Secretariat.  
• Seattle Slew was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who became the tenth winner of the American Triple Crown (1977). He is one of only two horses to have won the Triple Crown while undefeated in previous races.  
• Seattle Slew was the 1977 Horse of the Year and a champion at ages two, three, and four. He was ranked 9th in the Blood-Horse magazine’s List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. He had an astounding career record of 17: 14–2–0. 

DAM: Panty Raid

• Panty Raid was one of the versatile performers of her generation, winning the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. on conventional dirt in May 2007 and the G.I. American Oaks on turf two months later before doubling her Grade I tally in that year’s Juddmonte Spinster S. over the Keeneland all-weather. 
• Panty Raid is a daughter of Include and is owned by Glencrest Farm LLC. Include retired with a career record of 20:10-1-4. He ranked seventh by earnings in 2001, and his top performances included a runner-up effort in the 2001 Clark Handicap (G2) at Churchill Downs and first in that year’s New Orleans Handicap (G2) at Fair Grounds. 
• Panty Raid’s dam, Adventurous Di, also has a rich ancestry. Both parents of Adventurous Di have a lineage of great sires, Damascus and Seattle Slew. 
• Damascus was the Horse of the Year in 1967 after winning the Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Woodward Stakes, and Dwyer Stakes. Damascus’s racing career record is 32: 21-7-3. 
• Seattle Slew and Damascus only had one race that they did not win or place. Both won most of their races; the rest were second or third.