Gallorette
| Gallorette | |
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| Sire | Challenger II |
| Grandsire | Swynford |
| Dam | Gallette |
| Damsire | Sir Gallahad III |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1942 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Preston M. Burch |
| Owner | William L. Brann |
| Trainer | Edward A. Christmas |
| Record | 72: 21-20-13 |
| Earnings | $445,535 |
| Major wins | |
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Acorn Stakes (1945) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1945) Delaware Oaks (1945) Empire City Handicap (1945) Metropolitan Handicap (1946) Brooklyn Handicap (1946) Beldame Stakes (1946) Queens County Handicap (1947) Wilson Stakes (1947, 1948) Carter Handicap (1948) Whitney Handicap (1948) |
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| Awards | |
| American Champion Older Female Horse (1946) | |
| Honours | |
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United States Racing Hall of Fame (1962) Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1977) #45 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of 20th Century #3 Female - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of 20th Century Gallorette Handicap at Pimlico Race Course |
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| Last updated on September 22, 2006 | |
Gallorette (1942–1959) was a Maryland-bred chestnut thoroughbred filly who became a Hall of Fame race horse. Sired by Challenger II, out of Gallette, Gallorette's damsire was Sir Gallahad III. Even so, her dam, Gallette, had once exchanged hands for $250 and was used as a hack.
Trainer Preston M. Burch bought Gallette because of her highly successful sire, Sir Gallahad III. Because of her sire, the advertising executive William L. Brann, who co-owned a stallion called Challenger II, entered into an agreement with Burch that they would send Gallette to his stallion (who had sired Preakness winner Challedon) and then each would own her foals, first one for Brann and then one for Burch and so on. Gallette's first foal, Gallorette, went to Brann.
Brann sent the young horse to the trainer Edward A. Christmas, a member of a noted family of Maryland horsemen. Gallorette grew into a big, rangy filly. Too gawky to start too young, she didn't make her first start until late in her second year. For her two-year-old season, beginning in September, she started in 8 races and won three. She was never out of the money.
As a three-year-old in 1945, she stood 16 hands 1 inch. Her first race was a victory over Hoop Jr., the colt that went on to win that year's Kentucky Derby. She then took on the colts again in the Wood Memorial Stakes, coming in second to Jeep. "The Great Ones," a Blood-Horse book, says of her: "She was a big mare; as big as most of the colts she raced against, tougher than some of them, faster than almost all of them."
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