Program Trading

Program Trading (foaled April 22, 2020) is a multiple Grade 1 winning British-bred American-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. The horse as a three-year-old in 2023 the horse won the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby at Saratoga Racetrack and the Hollywood Derby at Del Mar Racetrack.

Program Trading
Sire	Lope de Vega
Grandsire	Shamardal
Dam	Dreamlike
Damsire	Oasis Dream
Sex	Colt
Foaled	April 22, 2020[1]
Country	Great Britain
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Fittocks Stud & Arrow Farm Stud
Owner	Klaravich Stables
Trainer	Chad C. Brown
Record	7: 5 - 1 - 0
Earnings	US$1,324,250[2]
Major wins
Saratoga Derby (2023) Hollywood Derby (2023) Turf Classic Stakes (2024)
Last updated on June 10, 2024

Background

Program Trading is a bay ridgling who was bred by Fittocks Stud, located in Upend in Cambridgeshire and Arrow Farm and Stud. Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan bought both Program Trading and Domestic Spending at the 2021 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale where they were consigned him to sale and Ryan purchased him for 250,000 guineas (US$356,551]).^[3]

Program Trading is sired by Irish-bred Lope de Vega. Lope de Vega will stand for a 2024 stud fee of €125,000 at Ballylinch Stud in Ireland. Program Trading is the first stakes winner and one of two winners in three starters for the Oasis Dream mare Dreamlike. A winner once in six starts with three seconds, Dreamlike is a half sister to Group 2 Park Hill Stakes winner Silk Sari. Program Trading's third dam is Irish champion Gossamer, a full sister to 1994 Breeders' Cup Mile winner Barathea.

Program Trading is trained by Chad C. Brown and owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables.^[2]

Statistics

Date	Distance	Race	Group Grade	Track	Odds	Field	Finish	Time	Winning (Losing) Margin	Jockey	Ref
2023 – Three-year-old season
14 May 2023	1+1⁄16 miles	Maiden Special Weight		Monmouth Park	3.00	10	1	1:41.13	5 lengths	Samy Camacho	[4]
25 Jun 2023	1+1⁄16 miles	Allowance Optional Claiming		Belmont Park	0.75*	7	1	1:40.34	2+1⁄4 lengths	Flavien Prat	[5]
5 Aug 2023	1+3⁄16 miles	Saratoga Derby	I	Saratoga	3.60	8	1	1:56.63	head	Flavien Prat	[6]
9 Sep 2023	1+1⁄8 miles	Virginia Derby	III	Colonial Downs	0.70*	9	2	1:46.41[a]	(1+1⁄4 lengths)	Flavien Prat	[7]
2 Dec 2023	1+1⁄8 miles	Hollywood Derby	I	Del Mar	0.90*	7	1	1:47.82	neck	Flavien Prat	[8]
2024 – Four-year-old season
4 May 2024	1+1⁄8 miles	Turf Classic Stakes	I	Churchill Downs	4.09	10	1	1:50.30	head	Flavien Prat	[9]
8 Jun 2024	1+3⁄16 miles	Manhattan Stakes	I	Saratoga	2.75*	8	5	1:51.94	(2+1⁄2 lengths)	Flavien Prat	[10]

Legend:
  Turf
Notes:
An (*) asterisk after the odds means Program Trading was the post-time favourite.

1. The winner Integration, set a new track record for the 1+1⁄8-mile distance at Colonial Downs

Pedigree

Pedigree of Program Trading (GB), bay colt, April 20, 2020^[1]

Sire Lope de Vega (IRE) (2007)	Shamardal (2002)	Giant's Causeway (1997)	Storm Cat (1983)
			Mariah's Storm (1991)
		Helsinki (GB) (1993)	Machiavellian (1987)
			Helen Street (GB) (1982)
	Lady Vettori (GB) (1997)	Vettori (IRE) (1992)	Machiavellian (1987)
			Air Distingue (1980)
		Lady Golconda (FR) (1992)	Kendor (FR) (1986)
			Lady Sharp (FR) (1981)
Dam Dreamlike (GB) (2012)	Oasis Dream (GB) (2000)	Green Desert (1983)	Danzig (1977)
			Foreign Courier (1979)
		Hope (IRE) (1991)	Dancing Brave (1983)
			Bahamian (IRE) (1985)
	So Silk GB) (2004)	Rainbow Quest (1981)	Blushing Groom (FR) (1974)
			I Will Follow (1975)
		Gossamer (GB) (1999)	Sadlers Wells (1981)
			Brocade (1981) (family: 14-a)[11]

• Through his sire, Product Trading was inbred 4s × 4s to Machiavellian, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.