Take the Points retired after fracturing splint

Owned by Starlight Partners, Take the Points compiled a record of 16-4-3-1

and was just shy of millionaire status with $943,590 to his credit.

The gray colt was on the Triple Crown trail last year, finishing second to

The Pamplemousse (Kafwain) in the Sham S. (G3) and fourth to Pioneerof the Nile

in the Santa Anita Derby (G1). Following an uncharacteristic last in the

Preakness S. (G1), Take the Points switched to turf and immediately responded

with a fourth in the Colonial Turf Cup (G2) and an even closer third in the

Virginia Derby (G2).

Take the Points broke through with a hard-fought decision in the Secretariat

S. (G1) and made it two in a row in the Jamaica H. (G1). He concluded 2009 with

a dull seventh in the Hollywood Derby (G1), but was back to his best when making

his 2010 debut in the Gulfstream Park Turf S. (G1). Although he crossed the wire

a 1 1/2-length winner, he was deemed guilty of interference, disqualified and

demoted to fifth.

In his first start back since a creditable fifth in the Dubai Duty Free

(UAE-G1), Take the Points held the lead in the stretch of the Manhattan H. (G1),

but tired late for fourth. He improved next time in the United Nations, where he

fared best of the Americans and yielded only to the flying Chinchon (Ire) (Marju).

Bred by Phoenix Farm in Kentucky, Take the Points was a $160,000 Fasig-Tipton

Kentucky July yearling purchase. He is out of the Fred Astaire mare Ginger

Ginger, making him a half-brother to stakes winner Tin Man Commin (Tinners Way).

Take the Points hails from the family of Group 2-winning sire Condorcet (Luthier),

the runner-up in the 1975 Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand

Guineas) (Fr-G1).

Stud plans are pending.