Chinook Pass (horse)
| Chinook Pass | |
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| Sire | Native Born |
| Grandsire | Native Dancer |
| Dam | Yu Turn |
| Damsire | Turn-To |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | April 28, 1979 |
| Died | June 1, 2010 (aged 31 years, 1 month, 5 days) |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark Bay/Brown |
| Breeder | Hi Yu Stables |
| Owner | Hi Yu Stables |
| Trainer | 1) Bud Klokstad (1981–82) 2) Laurie Anderson (1983) |
| Record | 25: 16-4-1 |
| Earnings | US$ 480,073 |
| Major wins | |
| Stripling Stakes (1981) Washington Stallion Stakes (1981) Speed Handicap (1982) Governor's Handicap (1982) Meteor Handicap (1982) Palos Verdes Handicap (1982) Sierra Madre Handicap (1983) Potrero Grande Handicap (1983) San Simeon Handicap (1983) Bing Crosby Handicap (1983) Longacres Mile Handicap (1983) |
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| Awards | |
| Washington State Horse of the Year (1982, 1983) American Champion Sprint Horse (1983) |
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| Honours | |
| Washington State Horse of the Century (2000) Washington Racing Hall of Fame (2003) Chinook Pass Stakes at Emerald Downs |
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Chinook Pass (April 28, 1979 – June 1, 2010) was an American Champion thoroughbred racehorse. He was noted for his performances over sprint distances and was voted American Champion Sprint Horse in 1983.
Chinook Pass was named for the stunning mile-high mountain pass that takes motorists to the very foot of 14,411 feet (4,392 m) Mount Rainier as they travel between Eastern and Western Washington State, USA.
Bred and raced by retired Seattle policeman Ed Purvis under his Hi Yu Stables banner, Chinook Pass was out of the mare Yu Turn, a daughter of the important sire, Turn-To. His sire was the Vanderbilt-bred Native Born, who was a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Native Dancer out of Sagamore Farm's two-time national champion mare, Next Move.
He was foaled at Dewaine Moore's Rainier Stables near Enumclaw, Washington.
Racing at age two, he won three of five starts, including the Washington Stallion Stakes at Longacres Racetrack in track record time. An injury in the Gottstein Futurity kept him out of racing for seven months.
Back on the track at age three, Chinook Pass made thirteen starts, winning eight, finishing second three times and third, once. He became the first three-year-old to win the Washington State Governor's Handicap in twenty-seven years.
At Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington on September 17, 1982 Chinook Pass set a new world record of 0:55 1/5 for five furlongs in winning the Longacres Owners Handicap, which remains the North American dirt record.
Near the end of 1982, he won the Meteor Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack in a time of 0:56 for five furlongs on turf which equalled the American record, and capped his three-year-old season with a track record-tying victory in the Palos Verdes Handicap, then the Santa Anita opening day feature, on a hand ride by jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. to finish in 1:07 3/5.
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