Cravat (horse)
| Cravat | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Sickle |
| Grandsire | Phalaris |
| Dam | Frilette |
| Damsire | Man o' War |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1935 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney |
| Owner | Townsend B. Martin |
| Trainer | Walter Burrows |
| Record | 42: 9-8-10 |
| Earnings | US$121,305 |
| Major wins | |
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Yankee Handicap (1938) Preakness Stakes 2nd (1938) |
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| Last updated on May 3, 2010 | |
Yankee Handicap (1938)
Jerome Handicap (1938)
Brooklyn Handicap (1939)
Suburban Handicap (1939)
San Juan Capistrano Handicap (1939)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1939)
Cravat (1935–1954) was an American record-setting Thoroughbred racehorse who won races on both dirt and turf that today are Grade 1 events. In the U.S. Triple Crown series, he finished second in the Preakness Stakes and third in the Belmont Stakes.
Cravat was sired by Sickle, the British Champion Two-Year-Old Colt whom Cravat helped become a two-time leading sire in North America. Sickle was a son of the important sire Phalaris, a two-time leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland. His dam was Frilette, a daughter of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Man o' War.
He was purchased as a two-year-old for $10,600 by New York City banker Townsend B. Martin at the 1937 C. V. Whitney dispersal sale. Racing at age three in June 1938, Cravat won the Yankee Handicap at Suffolk Downs in Boston in a track record time of 1:56 1/5 for a mile and three sixteenths miles. and at four in 1939 he set a new Santa Anita Park track record of 2:30 2/5 in winning the mile and a half San Juan Capistrano Handicap.
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