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Macho Again (foaled 2005 in Florida) is a retired American thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was sired by the 2000 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Macho Uno, who in turn was a son of leading sire Holy Bull. He is out of the mare Go Donna Go, who is the daughter of Wild Again. Macho Again got his start as a two-year-old under trainer Dallas Stewart at Saratoga Race Course. He ran four times, breaking his maiden with a victory at Churchill Downs. Macho Again also placed second twice while earning over $45,000. == Three-year-old season == At age three, he continued to race for Dallas Stewart and began the year in New Orleans at the Fair Grounds Race Course. On February 28, 2008, he won a Fair Grounds allowance race by 4½ lengths after suffering a slight injury in the Grade III Lecomte Stakes in early January. One week prior to the Kentucky Derby, Macho Again won the Derby Trial, a grade three at Churchill Downs. After this graded win, Stewart and West Point decided to send the horse to the second jewel of the Triple Crown, the $1,000,000 Preakness Stakes a Grade I at Pimlico Race Course at a mile and three sixteenths on conventional dirt. In the Preakness, Macho Again faced an overflow field of thirteen colts, many of them stakes winners. Media darling and Derby winner Big Brown was left alone on the lead with slow early fractions in the first half mile. 〔 〕 With nothing to run at and a slow pace, Macho Again was taken out of his game and finished a distant second in the Preakness to Big Brown. 〔 〕 He raced again in the Belmont Stakes and finished fifth. In late July, Macho Again was one of 33 three-year-old horses invited to the start in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey. However, he skipped the Haskell and instead raced in the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 27, 2008. In the Grade II Jim Dandy, Macho Again held off 3-2 favorite Pyro in the stretch to win by ½ length and earn $300,000, The colt also finished second in the Grade II Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in September 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Macho Again」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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