Forbidden Apple

{{For|the fruit in the biblical Garden of Eden, which is often depicted as an apple|Forbidden fruit}}

{{Infobox racehorse

| name = Forbidden Apple

| image =

| image_alt =

| caption =

| sire = Pleasant Colony

| grandsire = His Majesty

| dam = North of Eden

| damsire = Northfields

| sex = Stallion

| foaled = 1995

| 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

| wins = Belmont Breeder's Cup Handicap (2000)
Kelso Handicap (2000, 2001)
Manhattan Handicap (2001)

| awards = 2001 Florida Horse of the Year{{cite web|title=Forbidden Apple Honored as Florida's 2001 Horse of the Year|url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/188895/forbidden-apple-honored-as-floridas-2001-horse-of-the-year|accessdate=10 August 2019|language=en}}

| honors = Forbidden Apple Stakes (2014–2022)
at Saratoga Race Course

| updated = 16 July 2023

}}

Forbidden Apple (foaled May 31, 1995) is 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.{{cite web|title=Forbidden Apple|url=http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=4018508®istry=T|accessdate=10 August 2019|language=en}} 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.{{cite web|title=Event By Year|url=http://www.breederscup.com/history/event-year|website=Breederscup.com|accessdate=2012-06-02}}

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

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 Race Course. In 2023 the event was renamed to the Kelso Stakes.

Pedigree

{{Pedigree

|name =Forbidden Apple (USA), 2015{{cite web|title=Forbidden Apple|url=https://www.pedigreequery.com/forbidden+apple|accessdate=10 August 2019|language=en}}

|f= Pleasant Colony (USA)
1978

|m= North of Eden (IRE)
1983

|ff= His Majesty (USA)
1968

|fm= Sun Colony (USA)
1968

|mf= Northfields (USA)
1968

|mm= Tree of Knowledge (IRE)
1977

|fff= Ribot

|ffm= Flower Bowl

|fmf= Sunrise Flight

|fmm= Colonia

|mff =Northern Dancer

|mfm =Little Hut