b"breedingAnne M. eberhArdtAccelerate capped his 5-year-old season with a gritty win in the Breeders Cup Classic. He retires to Lane's End Farm.ACCeleRATe starts, including the $6 million Breeders Cup 2019 Fee: $20,000Classic over an impressive field that including lanes end Farm Mendelssohn, West Coast, and Roaring Lion. 2013 chestnut (Lookin At Lucky He also captured the grade 1 TVG Pacific Clas-Issues, by Awesome Again) sic Stakes, Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes, and Race record: 23 sts, 10-5-6 Santa Anita Handicap.$6,692,480 Accelerate is by far his sire Lookin At Luckys leading earner. A two-time champion and winner of the Preakness Stakes, Lookin At Lucky (by Accelerate arrived at Lanes End Farm inSmart Strike) had 10 other black-type winners in late January 2019 after capping his career with2018, including Beldame (G1) winner Wow Cat. a solid third in the Pegasus World Cup over aIssues, the dam of Accelerate, is a winning daugh-sloppy Gulfstream Park track and being hon- ter of Awesome Again and descends in female line ored as 2018 champion older horse. The honorfrom 1979 Broodmare of the Year Smartaire, who was much deserved as Accelerate came close toalso figures in Lookin At Luckys pedigree as the a perfect season last year, winning six of sevendam of Smart Strikes broodmare sire, Smarten.104 13_NewSires.indd 104 3/20/19 4:43 PM"