Gallo Blue Chip
| Gallo Blue Chip | |
|---|---|
| Breed | Standardbred |
| Sire | Magical Mike (1991) (1:50.2) ($1,682,080) |
| Grandsire | Tyler B. (1977) (1:55.1) ($887,338) |
| Dam | Camatross (1981) |
| Damsire | Albatross (1968) ($1:54.3) |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1997 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dan Gernatt Farms (Collins, New York) |
| Owner | Martin Scharf |
| Trainer | Mark Ford |
| Earnings | $4,260,959 |
| Major wins | |
| 53 | |
| Awards | |
| Best mile rate: 1:48.4 Leading Money Pacer of All Time World Champion on a 5/8 mile track American Harness Horse of the Year (2000) United States Pacer of the Year (2000, 2001) |
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| Honours | |
| United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame (2011) | |
| Last updated on 2014-07-06 | |
Gallo Blue Chip is a Standardbred harness racing horse who earned $4.2 million in total winnings during his racing career. Gallo Blue Chip's sire was Magical Mike, and his dam was Camatross. Magical Mike's sire was Tyler B., and his dam was Racing Date; Camatross' sire was Albatross, and her dam was Bye Bye Camille.
Gallo Blue Chip was purchased by his owner, Martin Scharf, for $100,000 from Chris Oakes of Lockport, New York. He was bred by Dan Gernatt Farms in Collins, New York.
Gallo Blue Chip won eight of eight starts in 1999, including seven New York Sires Stakes and the $150,000 championship. In 2000, Gallo Blue Chip won the Meadowlands Pace horse race at the Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey with a time of 1:50.4. The same year, he also won the Breeder's Crown Three-Year-Old Colt and Gelding Pace at Mohawk Racetrack in 1:51.1. Winning the North America Cup (1:50.1; $1 million),Tattersalls Pace, and Art Rooney Pace were additional major victories for him that year. He set the world record for three-year-old pacers on a 5/8 mile track in his win at the Little Brown Jug Preview with a time of 1:50, becoming World Champion.
Gallo Blue Chip's owner, Martin Scharf, described his feelings about the horse's North America Cup victory, saying, "Winning the North America Cup was a thrill and a relief. Even if you know a horse is good, he has to prove it. I've been in this business for 10 years and you never really know if you have that caliber of a horse. The horse's trainer, Mark Ford, said of him in July of 2000, "He's a little hard to train. You won't be impressed if you train him in the middle of the week, but he is good when he races."
He was a great horse - a big horse. If you sat behind him and he was going slow you would never think that he was a great horse. He felt like a horse with not a lot, but when you got him going there was nothing like him. He was so powerful in the Meadowlands Pace and especially the Jug Preview. Those are the races that I will always remember most. In the Jug Preview, he was parked the whole mile. You know, not many horses can do that, and the way he did it is very hard to describe. (Daniel Dube, February 21, 2008)
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