- 2007 season- Trained by
Nick Zito, War Pass both broke his maiden and won a first level
allowance race at
Saratoga Race Course in August and September. On October 3, 2007, he won the G1
Champagne Stakes at
Belmont Park, which as a part of the
Breeders' Cup Challenge earned him an automatic berth in the
Breeders' Cup Juvenile. On October 27, 2007, War Pass was the post time favorite and won the G1
Breeders' Cup Juvenile by lengths over a sloppy track at
Monmouth Park. Undefeated in 2007, he was made a winterbook favorite for the 2008
Kentucky Derby.
- 2008 season- Wintered at
Palm Meadows Thoroughbred Training Center in
Florida, War Pass started his three-year-old campaign in an allowance race. With no real competition in the race, the betting public made him the 1-20 favorite. War Pass broke to the lead and pulled away from the field with little effort under Cornelio Velasquez. His next start in the G3
Tampa Bay Derby started out in similar fashion, as he was again the overwhelming 1 to 20 favorite. However, he was bumped at the start and never got into the lead. Although he eventually made it up to third in the field of seven, he stopped badly and finished last, beaten 23 lengths. He apparently had a fever earlier in the week, and trainer
Nick Zito said that he also sustained some cuts due to the bumping he took at the beginning of the race. When he was shipped to New York's
Aqueduct Racetrack for the April 5, 2008
Wood Memorial Stakes, War Pass had a difficult trip and suffered a cut lip that required stitches. In the race, he took the lead early but tired in the homestretch and finished second after being caught in the final six strides by
Tale of Ekati. Following the Wood Memorial, it was discovered he had a minor fracture in his left foreleg, and was officially out of the Kentucky Derby. Although he made a full recovery, vets concluded that it would be too dangerous to run him again. War Pass was retired to stud in September 2008. ==Offspring==