Let Em Know the first graded stakes winner for Jackie’s Warrior

Dynamic First-Crop sire Jackie’s Warrior got his first graded winner with Let Em Know in Saturday’s Pilgrim S. (G2) at Belmont, a ‘Win and You’re In’ race for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) at Keeneland Oct. 30.

Let Em Know’s connections were looking for redemption after a less-than-ideal trip in last month’s Summer S. (G1) at Woodbine. Let Em Know and jockey Edgard Zayas worked out a perfect trip in Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile turf contest. Breaking from the outside in the field of 11, Let Em Know quickly made his way to fourth, just two lengths from the lead, in the first quarter-mile. He settled nicely on the backstretch, moving up to third into the turn.

Let Em Know steadily advanced on the turn and was in a three-way battle for the lead straightening for home. He wrested the lead from Stock Rising with a furlong to run, then held off the late charge of Roscoe Goose to win by a half-length.

“Edgard gave him the perfect trip around. I couldn’t have been happier with the way he ran, said winning trainer Whit Beckman. “This horse, when he gets to the front, he fights. You can see he’s one of those that knows where he’s at and knows how to keep it.”

Let Em Know, a $600,000 OBS 2-year-old purchase in March, is owned by Anthony Tate, Robert Ogilvie, Joe Pickerrell and Diamond T Racing LLC and has earned $211,409. The bay colt was bred in Kentucky by Dixiana Farms LLC and is out of the Inside Information (G2) winner America’s Tale.

Jackie’s Warrior is currently third on the First-Crop sire list, with a pair of stakes winner, 12 individual winners and progeny earnings of $1,451,116.