UNBEATEN now in three starts this year, Program Trading took a major step up in class for his most success, as it came in his first attempt at stakes class. It was no ordinary stakes race either, but rather the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes.

Running in the colours of Klaravich Stables, the three-year-old rig is a son of Lope De Vega (Shamardal), Ballylinch Stud’s outstanding international sire. With this victory he brought the stallion’s haul of winners at the highest level to 19, and he is a member of his sire’s ninth crop. Those Group/Grade 1 wins have also been recorded in Australia, France, the UAE, Ireland, Britain, and Canada.