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Oct. 30 & 31

Keeneland

358:

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01 :

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17 :

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56:

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Three Technique

Three Technique

USA

Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile

Winner

midwest

Morning Line Odds:

30

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Three Technique’s greatest success during his 39-race career has come around one turn, specifically 7 furlongs or a mile. Three Technique earned a fees-paid berth into the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) on Nov. 2 at Del Mar with a victory in the Ack Ack Stakes (G3) on Sept. 28 at Churchill Downs for trainer Jason Cook.

Three Technique ($1,177,237) became a millionaire in the 1-mile Ack Ack, his seventh lifetime victory. The 7-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Grade 1 winner Mr Speaker originally was raced by owner Bill Parcells, a two-time Super Bowl winning coach. Parcells purchased Three Technique (a football term for a defensive lineman’s positioning) for $180,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Select Yearling Sale in 2018.

After not panning out as a Kentucky Derby prospect in 2020, Three Technique’s subsequent stakes and allowance struggles led to a November 2021 claimer at Churchill Downs. The Kentucky-based Cook won a 27-way shake to claim Three Technique for $40,000 on behalf of co-owner David Miller, a former University of Louisville quarterback.

Three Technique represents the most successful runner of Cook’s 34-year training career. The 1-mile Knicks Go Overnight on the 2022 Kentucky Derby undercard marked Cook’s first stakes victory since 1997. Three Technique also gave Cook his first career graded stakes victory in the 7-furlong John A. Nerud (G2) in July 2023 at Belmont Park. Three Technique, among only a half-dozen or so horses for Cook, finished sixth in the 2022 Dirt Mile (G1) and eighth in the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1).

Cook, a Kentucky native, is the son of the late jockey Lois C. Cook, who won the 1957 Kentucky Oaks. Three Technique’s dam, Nite in Rome (CAN), is a stakes-placed daughter of Harlan’s Holiday. Three Technique’s half-brother, Stan the Man, was multiple graded stakes placed.

Keeneland Sales Graduate

TEAM

jockey

Rafael Bejarano

trainer

Jason Cook

owner

Grindley, Eric, Miller, David E., Preuss, Howard F. and Werner, John

breeder

Omega Farm LLC & Bally Breeders

sire

Mr Speaker

dam

Nite in Rome