Pletcher pleased by race in honor of Caixa Eletronica

Old warrior Caixa Eletronica was killed in a Belmont training accident in January (NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography)

Six-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher will always have a soft
spot for Caixa Eletronica, a former claimer turned graded stakes winner that was
lost in freak training accident this winter at the age of nine.
Gulfstream Park, where Pletcher is on his way to an unprecedented
11th consecutive training title, will run the $75,000 Caixa Eletronica overnight
stakes for older sprinters on Sunday.

“It’s cool. He certainly deserves it,” Pletcher said. “Hopefully, it’s a race
that sticks around for a while, because he’s worthy of having a race named after
him.”

Pletcher remembered Caixa Eletronica in his remarks when accepting the Eclipse
Award at the January 18 ceremony, held for the second straight year in the Sport of
Kings Theater at Gulfstream.

“To me, Caixa Eletronica personified everything that was terrific about this
game,” Pletcher said. “You can take a horse from a very modest beginning, modest
breeding, and compete at the highest level. We’ll certainly miss him. He’s an
all-time favorite.”

Pletcher claimed Caixa Eletronica for $62,500 at Gulfstream Park on March 9,
2011, on behalf of owner Mike Repole. The son of Arromanches won 11 of 29
races and purses of $1,601,800 for his new connections, taking seven stakes,
including the Fall Highweight, True North and Charles Town Classic
in 2012 and Westchester in 2011.