Triplicate (horse)
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Triplicate | |
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Sire | Reigh Count |
Grandsire | Sunreigh |
Dam | Fairday |
Damsire | Fair Play |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1941 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Chestnut |
Owner | Fred Astaire |
Trainer | (1947) |
Record | 90: 13-10-14 |
Earnings | US$244,600 |
Major wins | |
San Juan Capistrano Handicap (1946) Hollywood Gold Cup (1946) Golden Gate Handicap (1947) Palette Purse (1947) Regatta Handicap (1947) |
Triplicate (foaled 1941) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background[]
Triplicate was sired by the 1928 American Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Reigh Count. His dam was Fairday, a daughter of another Hall of Fame inductee, Fair Play.[1]
Racing career[]
Triplicate was purchased as an unsuccessful three-year-old for $6,000 by actor/dancer Fred Astaire who owned Blue Valley Ranch, a Thoroughbred breeding farm in the San Fernando Valley. Under veteran trainer , Triplicate had his best year in 1946 at age five. In March he defeated Howard Hawks' horse and won the 1½ mile San Juan Capistrano Handicap in track record time and on July 27 beat the best horses on the West Coast in the $100,000 Hollywood Gold Cup.
Trainer Clyde Phillips died on December 17, 1946 and Triplicate's race conditioning was taken over by . In 1947, Triplicate's most important win came under superstar jockey Johnny Longden in the $75,000 Golden Gate Handicap at Golden Gate Fields. In his last year of racing at age seven in 1949, he met with only modest success.
References[]
- 1941 racehorse births
- Racehorses bred in the United States
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Thoroughbred family 1-m
- Fred Astaire