Chop Chop (horse)
| Chop Chop | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Flares |
| Grandsire | Gallant Fox |
| Dam | Sceptical |
| Damsire | Buchan |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1940 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Bay |
| Owner | 1) Barclay K. Douglas 2) E. P. Taylor (1952) |
| Trainer | Harris Brown |
| Record | 11: 4-4-2 |
| Earnings | US$36,600 |
| Major wins | |
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Endurance Handicap (1942) Empire City Handicap (1943) |
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| Awards | |
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Leading sire in Canada (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963) |
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| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1977) | |
| Last updated on February 7, 2010 | |
Chop Chop (foaled 1940) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. He was sired by Flares, a son of U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and a full brother to U.S. Triple Crown winner Omaha. Flares raced in England with considerable success for owner William Woodward, Sr., counting the Ascot Gold Cup, Champion Stakes and Princess of Wales's Stakes among his wins.
Purchased as a yearling for $4,100 by Barclay K. Douglas of Oyster Bay, New York [1], Chop Chop saw his racing career cut short due to an injury. From eleven starts, he won four times and finished out of the money once. His most important wins came in the 1942 Endurance Handicap at Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland and the 1943 Empire City Handicap at New York's Jamaica Racetrack, in which he beat Princequillo.
Retired to stud duty, Chop Chop was sent to a breeding farm in Kentucky but in 1945 was leased by Gil Darlington, owner of Trafalgar Farm near Oakville, Ontario. Not given much consideration by most in the racing industry, Chop Chop did not attract any top-quality mares for breeding. As a result, his first five years in Canada showed no significant offspring until after he was sold, when Chain Reaction began winning major races in 1953.
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