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American thoroughbred racehorse (1995–2025)

Forbidden Apple

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Key facts

date of birthMay 31, 1995
date of deathJune 16, 2025
instance ofhorse
All data from the card 14
Sire
Pleasant Colony
Grandsire
His Majesty
Dam
North of Eden
Damsire
Northfields
Sex
Stallion
Foaled
May 31, 1995
Died
June 16, 2025 (aged 30)
Country
United States
Color
Dark Bay/Brown
Breeder
Arthur I. Appleton
Owner
Arthur I. Appleton
Trainer
Christophe Clement
Record
31: 8-6-9
Earnings
$1,680,640

Forbidden Apple (May 31, 1995 – June 16, 2025) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2001 Manhattan Handicap.

Career

Forbidden Apple's first race was on July 24, 1998, at Belmont Park, where he came in seventh. The colt's first win came on September 13, 1998, in a Maiden Special Weight race at Belmont Park. On the same track, he then won an Allowance event on October 25, 1998.

It would not be until September 16, 2000, that Forbidden Apple won his first graded stakes race, when he took the mile and one-eighth Belmont Breeder's Cup Handicap. He then picked up another graded win in the one mile Kelso Handicap on October 8, 2000.

Forbidden Apple earned the biggest win of his career when he won the June 9, 2001, Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park. He then got what turned out to be his last win on October 6, 2001, with a victory in Belmont's Kelso Handicap for the second time.

On June 8, 2002, Forbidden Apple attempted to defend his Manhattan Handicap title but finished second to Beat Hollow. He placed multiple times in 2002, coming close in the Bernard Baruch Handicap, Arlington Million, Kelso Handicap and the Breeders' Cup Mile won by Val Royal.

Forbidden Apple finished his career on January 25, 2003, with a third-place finish in the 2003 Barretts/CTBA Turf Stakes.

Death

Forbidden Apple was euthanised on June 16, 2025, at the age of 30.

Honors

In 2014, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) inaugurated a one-mile stakes race on turf at Belmont Park in Forbidden Apple's honor. Open to horses age four and older, the event's first winner was the colt Sayaad, owned by the Shadwell Stable. In 2019, the Forbidden Apple Stakes was given Grade 3 status and transferred to Saratoga Racecourse. In 2023, the event was renamed to the Kelso Stakes.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Forbidden Apple (USA), 2015
Sire
Pleasant Colony (USA)
1978
His Majesty (USA)
1968
Ribot Tenerani
Romanella
Flower Bowl Alibhai
Flower Bed
Sun Colony (USA)
1968
Sunrise Flight Double Jay
Misty Morn
Colonia Cockrullah
Nalga
Dam
North of Eden (IRE)
1983
Northfields (USA)
1968
Northern Dancer Nearctic
Natalma
Little Hut Occupy
Savage Beauty
Tree of Knowledge (IRE)
1977
Sassafras Sheshoon
Ruta
Sensibility Hail to Reason
Pange

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