No Le Hace | |
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Sire | Candy Spots |
Grandsire | Nigromante |
Dam | Tasma |
Damsire | Crafty Admiral |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 18 March 1969 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Chestnut |
Breeder | Nuckols Brothers |
Owner | Joseph W. Straus |
Trainer | Homer C. Pardue |
Record | 34: 9-8-4 |
Earnings | $239,752 |
Major wins | |
Lecomte Stakes (1972) Kentucky Derby 2nd (1972) Preakness Stakes 2nd (1972) |
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Last updated on June 25, 2013 |
Lecomte Stakes (1972)
Louisiana Derby (1972)
Arkansas Derby (1972)
Sugar Bowl Handicap (1971)
No Le Hace was an American Thoroughbred racehorse foaled on March 18, 1969, No Le Hace is best remembered for his runner-up performances in the $200,000 grade 1 Preakness Stakes to Bee Bee Bee and the Kentucky Derby behind Riva Ridge.
No Le Hace was a chestnut horse bred by Nuckols Brothers. He was sired by Candy Spots and was a grandson of Nigromante. He was out of the mare Tasma. He was trained by Homer C. Pardue,
At age two No Le Hace won four of his first five races including his maiden and two allowance races. In December 1972, his connections ran him in his first stakes race at six furlongs on the dirt in the Sugar Bowl Handicap at Fair Grounds Race Course. He won that race going away by four lengths.
In the lead-up to the 1972 U.S. Triple Crown series, No Le Hace won the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. He then won the mile and one sixteenth Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds Race Course in late March. In April, he was sent to Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he won the Arkansas Derby.