Weezy & Yachty Brought Hip-Hop Energy to Horse Racing—Now They’re in the Triple Crown
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From “6 Foot, 7 Foot” to the winner’s circle: Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty just made their biggest move in horse racing. Their syndicate, Run Fast Racing, got their horse Vitruvian Man into the $2 million Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga—the third and final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown.
Let’s be real: this isn’t some side hustle flexing. These two, alongside Puerto Rican reggaeton king Rauw Alejandro and racing veteran Glenn Sorgenstein, set this up proper. They launched Run Fast Racing in April 2025 with real business structure—$100-a-month subscription app where fans can literally win money when the horses win races. You get owner’s box access, naming rights, jockey selection votes. That’s not a fantasy league; that’s equity and engagement.
Vitruvian Man comes in off a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, trained by Doug O’Neill (a pro), with one win in six career starts. Not the flashiest resume for the Triple Crown’s toughest test, but Weezy and Yachty already proved they know what they’re doing—their first two Run Fast Racing horses, Sixhoofsevenhoof (yes, named after Lil Wayne’s 2011 classic) and Punto Forty (Rauw’s track), both won at Los Alamitos last year.
What makes this cultural is the move itself. Horse racing is old money, old traditions, predominantly white spaces. Bringing hip-hop energy, celebrity investment, and a democratized ownership model through that subscription app? That’s disruption. That’s saying we’re not just showing up to the track—we’re changing how the sport works. The Belmont purse sits at $1.2 million for first place. Vitruvian Man’s a long shot against seasoned Triple Crown contenders, but that’s not really the point anymore.
The 16BARS take: Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty just put hip-hop culture’s money and influence directly into one of America’s oldest sporting institutions. Whether Vitruvian Man wins or not, they already won by making horse racing less exclusive and more us.