Bed O' Roses

Bed o' Roses
Sire	Rosemont
Grandsire	The Porter
Dam	Good Thing
Damsire	Discovery
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1947
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Alfred G. Vanderbilt II
Owner	Sagamore Farm
Trainer	William C. Winfrey
Record	46: 18-8-6
Earnings	$383,925
Major wins
National Stallion Stakes (1949) Rancocas Stakes (1949) Colleen Stakes (1949) Demoiselle Stakes (1949) Matron Stakes (1949) Selima Stakes (1949) Lawrence Realization Stakes (1950) Vineland Handicap (1951) Comely Handicap (1951) Santa Margarita Handicap (1952)
Awards
U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (1949) U.S. Champion Older Female Horse (1951)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1976) Bed O' Roses Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack
Last updated on September 7, 2008

Bed o' Roses (1947 – January 5, 1953) was an American thoroughbred racehorse.

Bed o' Roses was a bay filly by Rosemont out of the mare Good Thing, by Discovery, owned and bred by Alfred G. Vanderbilt II's Sagamore Farm. Trained by Bill Winfrey and ridden by Eric Guerin, she won the 1949 Grade 1 Matron Stakes for two-year-old fillies at Belmont Park plus eight other important races. At the end of the season, Bed o' Roses was named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.

Racing as a three-year-old, Bed o' Roses defeated a quality field including colts in the 1 5/8 mile Lawrence Realization Stakes and finished second in the Travers Stakes and the Arlington Classic. After recovering from an injury that kept her out of racing for seven months, Bed o' Roses returned to win two more important races en route to being voted Champion Handicap Filly for the year. She continued to race at ages four and five, retiring after three races in 1952.

However, she suddenly died a few months later on January 5, 1953 from an organic disorder. She was just about to be bred to Count Fleet.

Bed o' Roses is buried at Sagamore Farm, Maryland.

In 1976, she was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

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