General Quarters (horse)

General Quarters
Sire	Sky Mesa
Grandsire	Pulpit
Dam	Ecology
Damsire	Unbridled's Song
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2006
Country	United States
Colour	Gray
Breeder	Mr. & Mrs. R. David Randal
Owner	1) Ken & Sarah Ramsey 2) Thomas R. McCarthy
Trainer	1) Wesley A. Ward 2) Thomas R. McCarthy
Record	21: 4-7-2
Earnings	US$1,165,260 (ongoing)
Major wins
Sam F. Davis Stakes (2009) Blue Grass Stakes (2009) Turf Classic Stakes (2010)

General Quarters (foaled March 7, 2006 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a contender for the 2009 U.S. Triple Crown. He was sired by Sky Mesa, winner of the 2002 Grade I Hopeful Stakes, a son of the 1997 Blue Grass Stakes winner, Pulpit. His dam is Ecology, a daughter of the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, Unbridled's Song.

He is owned and trained by 75-year-old Tom McCarthy, a retired high school teacher and principal. On May 30, 2008, McCarthy claimed General Quarters, his only horse, for $20,000 out of a maiden race at Churchill Downs.

Age 2
General Quarters made seven starts as a two-year-old. He won a maiden claiming race his first time out and was claimed by 75-year-old owner-trainer Tom McCarthy, a retired high school teacher and principal from Louisville, Kentucky. After that, the colt showed limited promise until his last race of 2008 when he earned his best stakes race result with a second-place finish in the Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
Age 3
On February 14, 2009, General Quarters won the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs . At Keeneland Race Course on April 11, the colt won the most important race of his career to date: the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes. His win qualified him for the May 2 Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown. Ridden by French jockey, Julien Leparoux, he finished tenth.
He was then entered into the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Downs, again with Leparoux aboard, and finished ninth.
Age 4
On May 1, 2010, General Quarters won the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, beating Court Vision.

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