Halo (horse)

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Halo
SireHail To Reason
GrandsireTurn-To
DamCosmah
DamsireCosmic Bomb
SexStallion
Foaled1969
CountryUnited States
ColourBlack Bay
Breeder
OwnerCragwood Stable
TrainerMacKenzie Miller
Record31: 9–8–5
Earnings$259,553
Major wins
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1972)
Tidal Handicap (1974)
United Nations Handicap (1974)
Awards
Leading sire in North America (1983, 1989)
Last updated on July 2, 2007

Halo (February 7, 1969 – November 28, 2000) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and an important Champion sire.

Background[]

Bred in Kentucky by , founder of the Breeders Cup, Halo was out of the mare Cosmah (who was the Kentucky Broodmare of the Year in 1974), which made him a half-brother to the Hall of Fame filly Tosmah. His sire was Hail To Reason, the U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and a great-grandson of the extremely important sire Nearco.[1]

Purchased by Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., owner of Nijinsky, Halo raced under his Cragwood Stable banner.

Racing career[]

After having little success at age two racing on dirt tracks, in his three-year-old campaign his U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller switched him to racing on turf, where he achieved better results. Although never a superstar horse, Halo raced for four years and in 1974, at age five, won the Grade I United Nations Handicap.

Stud record[]

After retiring from racing, in 1975 Halo was sent to stand at stud at the Maryland division of Windfields Farm, where his progeny included Sunny's Halo and, through his mating with the mare Ballade, Devil's Bag, Glorious Song, and Saint Ballado. In 1984, new majority owners moved Halo to stand at Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky, where he continued to produce notable offspring, the star of which was Sunday Silence. In all, Halo sired seven champions and 62 stakes winners including two Kentucky Derby winners. Twice, he was the leading sire in North America.

Halo was pensioned in 1997 and died at Stone Farm in 2000 at age thirty-one.[2]

Offspring[]

Halo was the sire of:[3]

  • Sunny's Halo – won 1983 Kentucky Derby
  • Sunday Silence – won 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic. The U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee is the most successful sire in the world by progeny earnings
  • Devil's Bag – won Champagne Stakes, Laurel Futurity, voted 1983 U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt
  • Glorious Song1980 & 1981 Canadian Champion Older Female Horse, 1980 United States Champion Older Female Horse, 1980 Canadian Horse of the Year
  • Saint Ballado – won 1992 Arlington Classic Stakes, sire of Saint Liam and Ashado
  • Goodbye Halo – filly won six Grade I stakes, earned in excess of $1.7 million
  • – won three Grade I stakes, equaled track record in winning the Philip H. Iselin Handicap, earned in excess of $1.2 million
  • – won Grade I Swaps Stakes, earned in excess of $1.5 million
  • – multiple stakes winner, earned in excess of $1.1 million
  • Southern Halo – Leading Sire in Argentina for eleven years, sire of 170 stakes winners.

Grandsire of:

Damsire of:

Pedigree[]

Pedigree of Halo, black stallion, foaled February 7, 1969[4]
Sire
Hail To Reason
brown 1958
Turn-To
b. 1951
Royal Charger
ch. 1942
Nearco
Sun Princess
Source Sucree
br. 1940
Admiral Drake
Lavendula
Nothirdchance
b. 1948
Blue Swords
b. 1940
Blue Larkspur
Flaming Swords
Galla Colors
b. 1943
Sir Gallahad
Rouge Et Noir
Dam
Cosmah
bay 1953
Cosmic Bomb
dkb/br. 1944
Pharamond
br. 1925
Phalaris
Selene
Banish Fear
br. 1932
Blue Larkspur
Herodiade
Almahmoud
ch. 1947
Mahmoud
gr. 1933
Blenheim
Mah Mahal
Arbitrator
b. 1937
Peace Chance
Mother Goose (Family 2-d)

Halo is inbred 4x4 to Blue Larkspur, meaning Blue Larkspur appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.pedigreequery.com/halo Halo's pedigree and partial racing stats
  2. ^ http://www.stonefarm.com/halo.html Halo's profile at Stone Farm
  3. ^ http://www.galopp-sieger.de/galoppsieger/stammtafel_html?startPferd=HaloHail%20to%20Re&fart=&ftype=&tiefe=5&suchePferd=Halo&efil= Halo's progeny for five generations at Galopp-Sieger.de
  4. ^ "Halo pedigree". www.equineline.com. Retrieved 2018-06-03.
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