Concern (February 14, 1991 – March 26, 2015) was a multi-millionaireAmericanThoroughbredracehorse. He was sired by top stallionBroad Brush, who in turn was a son ofAck Ack. His dam was Fara's Team. Foaled inMaryland, Concern was best known for his wins in the 1994Breeders' Cup Classic and the grade twoArkansas Derby. Born at owner Robert Meyerhoff's Fitzhugh Farm inPhoenix, Maryland. To date, Concern is one of only four Maryland-bred horses ever to surpass the three million dollar mark in earnings. The other three wereCigar,Knicks Go and Awad. He finished racing with a record of 7–7–11 in 30 starts and career earnings of $3,079,350.^[1]

At age two, Concern developed late in the year. He raced a total of four times winning both a maiden special weight race in his second attempt and an allowance race. He placed third in the $60,000 Rollicking Stakes for 2-year-old Maryland-breds atLaurel Park Racecourse.

Concern established himself as one of his crop's top three-year-olds by winning two big races and finishing in the money in each of his twelve starts as a sophomore. He started the season with three stakes placings in the spring atOaklawn Park inArkansas. In each successive stakes, he improved, beginning with a third-place finish in the Great West Stakes. He followed that up with a runner-up finish under jockeyFrancine Villeneuve^[2] in the grade threeRebel Stakes to Judge T. C. In April, Concern scored the second biggest win of his career underGarrett Gomez in the $500,000 grade twoArkansas Derby. He ran the 1-1/8 mile distance in 1:48.1 in a field of nine, defeating Blumin Affair and Silver Goblin.

His connections then made the decision to bypass the Kentucky Derby in favor of being fresh for the hometown $750,000 grade onePreakness Stakes atPimlico Race Course. In the second leg of the Triple Crown, Concern was taken way back early trailing 15 lengths down the backstretch. Then he unleashed his late rush and made up about a dozen lengths, finishing third behindTabasco Cat and Derby winnerGo for Gin in the "Run for the Black-Eyed Susans."

After his Preakness placing, Concern wheeled back in three weeks to place third in the grade threeRound Table Stakes atArlington Park. Two weeks later, he raced in the $300,000 grade twoOhio Derby and finished second in the field of nine to Exclusive Praline. He then finished third in the $500,000Haskell Invitational toHoly Bull. Later that summer, he attempted to run downHoly Bull again in the $750,000 grade oneTravers Stakes atSaratoga Race Course. He finished second by a neck but defeated Dual Classic winnerTabasco Cat.

In the autumn of 1994, he shipped to Canada to race in the nine furlong grade twoMolson Export Million Stakes placing third to Dramatic Gold. Two weeks later, he lost narrowly to Soul of the Matter in the $750,000 grade oneSuper Derby.

Concern achieved his greatest success using his come-from-behind running style in moving from last to first, again beating Tabasco Cat and Dramatic Gold in the 1994 Breeders' Cup Classic.

At age four, Concern won the $200,000 grade twoNew Orleans Handicap in March atFair Grounds Race Course.Mike Smith piloted him to the win over Fly Cry and Tossofthecoin. In the summer of 1995, he won the $275,000 grade oneCalifornian Stakes atHollywood Park. In that race he beat Tossofthecoin again and Tinners Way under jockey Smith and Best Pal. He also placed third in three different grade one races in his four-year-old season. Those races included thePimlico Special Handicap toCigar, theOaklawn Handicap toCigar and theMeadowlands Cup to Peaks and Valleys. After finishing eighth toCigar in the muddy Breeder's Cup Classic at Belmont Park, Concern returned to the Fair Grounds Race Course, where he began the year with a win in theNew Orleans Handicap, to win in an Allowance Race on November 24, 1995, two days after Thanksgiving, his career finale.

A descendant of the great sireNearco, Concern was retired tostud in 1996 at Northview Stallion Station inChesapeake City, Maryland until 2003. He then moved to the Oklahoma Equine Reproductive Center inWashington, Oklahoma, where he stood from 2004 until being pensioned in 2011.^[3] While Concern has sired a number of winners, his offspring have had some success ingraded stakes races but never to the level that their sire accomplished. The best of his progeny has actually been Good Night Shirt, asteeplechase runner who was voted the 2007 and 2008Eclipse Award asAmerican Champion Steeplechase Horse and was elected to theNational Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2017.

A press release on March 26, 2015, announced Concern's death at the age of 24. He was buried at Oklahoma Equine.^[3]

• Concern's pedigree and partial racing stats
• Video at YouTube of Concern's Arkansas Derby win
• Video at YouTube of the 1994 Travers Stakes: Holy Bull vs. Concern
• Video at YouTube of Concern's 1994 Breeder's Cup Classic win

• 1991 racehorse births
• 2015 racehorse deaths
• Racehorses bred in Maryland
• Racehorses trained in the United States
• Breeders' Cup Classic winners
• Thoroughbred family A5

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