St. Elias Stable, Ken Langone, Steven Duncker and Vicarage Stable’s Kentucky-bred Deterministic rocketed past pacesetter My Boy Prince in the stretch to post a 1 ¼-length victory in Saturday’s $750,000 Fourstardave S. (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

The one-mile Fourstardave for 4-year-olds and up on the inner turf course is an automatic qualifier for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar. It was the seventh win from 13 starts and third in a row for Deterministic, coming eight weeks after giving trainer Miguel Clement his first career Grade 1 victory in the Manhattan S. (G1) to close out the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. The current streak has come with jockey Kendrick Carmouche aboard.

“This is great. It is very rewarding. He was my first Grade 1 winner. It’s a great day. He is top class,” Clement said. “He looked great. He has tactical speed so you can use it. He was moving very well. I think Kendrick was just waiting to make his move. When he went for it, he went big. The horse delivered. He is a top-class horse. He’s won on multiple surfaces over a wide range of distances. He makes us look good because he is top-class.”

Bred in Kentucky by Hinkle Farms, Deterministic notched his sixth graded-stakes victory and extended a streak that began with a track record-setting triumph in the Grade 2 Fort Marcy in May at Belmont at the Big A.

Deterministic is Breeders’ Cup Bound

A graded-stakes winner on turf and dirt, the $625,000 purchase at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale won the Grade 3 Gotham as a sophomore before finding his best stride on turf in the latter half of his 3-year-old campaign. He has been third or better in 11-of-13 starts and banked $412,500 in victory to push his career bankroll to just shy of $2 million.

Ahead of a possible Breeders’ Cup start, Clement said Deterministic could run in either the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile Sept. 13 or the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile Oct. 4 at Keeneland.

“I’ll speak to the connections,” Clement said. “Let’s see how he comes out of it and then we’ll come up with a plan afterwards.”