The Stakes Wins Panel
The Stakes Wins panel lists the stakes races a horse has won, with the year, country, distance and surface for each.
It is the factual record underneath the analysis. Where the other panels tell you what a pedigree suggests, this one tells you what the horse actually did.
What the columns show
Race Name. The stakes race won.
Year. The year of the win, which tells you the horse's age at the time when read against its year of birth.
Country. Where the race was run. Worth attention, because stakes races are not equally hard to win everywhere and a record built across several jurisdictions reads differently from one built in a single programme.
Dist. The distance in metres.
Track. The surface, being dirt, turf or synthetic.
Reading it properly
Take National Treasure as an example. The panel shows the Preakness Stakes in 2023 over 1912m on dirt, the Pegasus World Cup Invitational in 2024 over 1811m on dirt, and the Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap in 2024 over 1609m on turf.
Three things are visible immediately from that record. He won at the top level at three, he continued to win at four rather than being a one-season horse, and he won on both dirt and turf, which is comparatively rare and says something about versatility that no pedigree analysis would tell you.
That last point is the general lesson. Read the distances and surfaces together rather than counting wins. A record spread across surfaces or across a wide distance range describes a different animal from one concentrated in a single lane, even where the number of wins is the same.
Reading it against the pedigree
The panel is most useful when read against the Distance Profile in the panel above it.
Where the horse's actual wins fall inside the range its pedigree pointed to, the pedigree analysis has been borne out. Where they fall outside it, you have learned something about that individual, and possibly about the family, that the pedigree alone did not predict.
For a mare you are assessing as a broodmare prospect, this comparison matters. A mare who raced well beyond what her pedigree suggested may transmit differently from one who did exactly what was expected.
If the panel is empty
An empty panel means the horse has no stakes wins recorded. For an unraced or lightly raced horse that is expected. For a hypothetical mating there is nothing to show, since the horse does not exist.
If you believe a stakes win is missing from a horse you know, you can submit a horse request so the record can be checked.