Pompey (horse)

Pompey
Sire	Sun Briar
Grandsire	Sundridge
Dam	Cleopatra
Damsire	Corcyra
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1923
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	William Robertson Coe
Owner	Shoshone Stable
Trainer	William H. Karrick
Record	35: 13–7–7
Earnings	US$143,495
Major wins
Belmont Futurity Stakes (1925) Hopeful Stakes (1925) East View Stakes (1925) United States Hotel Stakes (1925) Wood Stakes (1926) Wilton Handicap (1926) Saratoga Inaugural Handicap (1927) Blue Mountain Handicap (1927)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1925)

Pompey (1923–1944) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by William Coe and raced under the colors of his Shoshone Stable. Pompey was a son of Cleopatra and Sun Briar who also sired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Sun Beau. Sun Briar's dam was Sweet Briar, a French daughter of Leopold de Rothschild's St. Frusquin, whose wins included the Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes and who was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1903 and 1907.

Trained by William Karrick, Pompey won seven of ten starts in 1925 including the United States Hotel Stakes, East View Stakes, and defeated arch rival Chance Play in the two most important races of the year for two-year-olds, the August 29 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and the September 12 Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park. Voted the 1925 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Pompey was an early favorite to win the 1926 Kentucky Derby.

In his 1926 season debut, Pompey won the May 1st Wood Stakes at New York's Jamaica Race Course. He was not entered in the Preakness Stakes which that year was run on May 10 and was the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. On May 15, Pompey was sent off as the second choice by bettors in the Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Ridden by Laverne Fator, in the mile and a quarter event the colt faded after three-quarters of a mile and finished fifth to winner, Bubbling Over. Pompey did not run in the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes.