Devil His Due (April 18, 1989 – May 22, 2017) was a multimillionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire.
Bred in Kentucky by Peter E. Blum and raced under the Blue Ribbon Farm banner, he had a record of 41: 11-12-3 with career earnings of $3,920,405.
His marquee wins both came at Aqueduct Racetrack when he won both of New York's top Triple Crown prep races.
Prior to the Wood win, he finished in a dead heat with Lure in the $250,000 Grade II Gotham Stakes.
[2] In the Pimlico Special, he was a slight favorite at 1.3 to 1 over the prior year's Derby winner, Strike the Gold, at 1.7 to 1.
Jockey Herb McCauley kept Devil His Due in a stalking position of third throughout the first mile.
In his last year of racing, he placed second in the $110,000 Grade III Westchester Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack.
His trainer and owner then ran him against that decade's super horse, Cigar, in the Pimlico Special.
One of Devil His Due's claims to fame is that in an era of vast Lasix use, he ran Lasix-free in 41 starts for a total of over 44 miles of racing.