Flares (horse)

Flares
Sire	Gallant Fox
Grandsire	Sir Gallahad III
Dam	Flambino
Damsire	Wrack
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1933
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Belair Stud
Owner	William Woodward, Sr.
Trainer	Cecil Boyd-Rochfort
Record	20: 8-?-?
Earnings	£18,506
Major wins
Newmarket Stakes (1936) Champion Stakes (1937) Lowther Stakes (1937) Princess of Wales's Stakes (1937) Ascot Gold Cup (1938)

Flares (foaled 1933 in Maryland) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse owned, bred, and raced by the preeminent horseman in the United States, William Woodward, Sr. Flares was out of the racing mare Flambino, winner of the 1927 Gazelle Handicap. His sire was the great Gallant Fox, the 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

Flares was a full brother to Woodward's 1935 U.S. Triple Crown champion, Omaha. Determined to win England's most prestigious weight-for-age race, the Ascot Gold Cup, in 1936 Woodward sent the then four-year-old Omaha to compete in England, where he ran second in the Ascot Gold Cup.

When Flares was a yearling in 1934, Woodward shipped him to trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at his base in Newmarket, England. Racing at age three, in mid-May 1936 Flares won the Newmarket Stakes. In 1937, he had an outstanding year as a four-year-old. At Newmarket Racecourse, he won the mile and a half Princess of Wales's Stakes, the Champion Stakes at a mile and a quarter, and the Lowther Stakes at a mile and three quarters.

In 1938, Flares was entered in the Ascot Gold Cup and was sent off by bettors as a 100 to 7 longshot. However, he became the first American horse since Foxhall in 1882 to win the prestigious two and a half mile race and gave William Woodward his first-ever victory in the event.

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