| Color: blk
(GB)
31-12-6-6, $383,968
Won: Bradgate Park Nursery Handicap, (GB), Great Foal Stakes (GB), Diomed Stakes (GB), Hollywood Gold Cup, Santa Anita Handicap, Golden Gate Handicap, American Handicap, San Juan Capistrano Handicap, and Forty-Niners Handicap.
Set 6 new track, American, or world records.
Champion Older Handicap Horse, 1950.
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Ran in top company at ages 2 and 3 in England, won the Diomed Stakes and the Great Foals Stakes, but didn\'t place in the classics. Sent to the U.S. to run at age 4, where he found the footing more to his liking, winning the San Juan Capistrano Handicap in a world record, the Santa Anita Handicap, another world record, and the Forty-Niners Handicap, also a world record -- in each race he beat Citation; he won the U.S. championship for Handicap Horse of the Year. Not a success at stud, still, got Noor\'s Image, dam of Dancer\'s Image; In Reserve, long-running handicap mare; Beautillon (dam of Delta Judge), and Yours, champion sprinter in France.
Source: http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricDams/EngFoundationMares/Family16/Family16.html
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