Graeme Hall was sent off as the third choice off a 6 1/4-length romp in the Stuyvesant Handicap.

Graeme Hall edged the 2000 Preakness winner, Red Bullet, for second place.

Graeme Hall, who ended last year with a 12th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, won $300,000.

Although he missed the money only once in seven previous starts, Graeme Hall was a long shot in the field of 14 3-year-olds.

In his only other race this year, Graeme Hall won an allowance event at Gulfstream Park.

Graeme Hall made five starts as a 2-year-old, including a second and a third in stakes races.

Graeme Hall paid $38.40 on a $2 bet to win.

Proprietors Joan and Graeme Hall came here 10 years ago.

As Graeme Hall was preparing to run the best race of his young career, Pletcher received more bad news.

He continued to draw the strip until his death in January 2000, and Graeme Hall took it up afterwards.