Sarazen
| Sarazen | |
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| Sire | High Time |
| Grandsire | Ultimus |
| Dam | Rush Box |
| Damsire | Box |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1921 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Dr. Marius E. Johnston |
| Owner | Virginia Fair Vanderbilt |
| Trainer | Max Hirsch |
| Record | 55: 27-2-6 |
| Earnings | $225,000 |
| Major wins | |
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Champagne Stakes (1923) Oakdale Handicap (1923) National Stallion Stakes (1923) Laurel Special (1923) Carter Handicap (1924) Manhattan Handicap (1924) Saranac Stakes (1924) International Special No.3 (1924) Averne Handicap (1924, 1925) Fleetwing Handicap (1924, 1925) Dixie Handicap (1925, 1926) Metropolitan Handicap (1926) |
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| Awards | |
| Unofficial U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Male Horse (1924) Unofficial U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1925) Unofficial United States Horse of the Year (1924, 1925) |
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| Honours | |
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United States Racing and Hall of Fame (1957) #92 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century |
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Sarazen (1921–1940) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned by Colonel Phil T. Chinn's Himyar Stud, Sarazen won his first three starts. Chinn then sold him for a huge profit to Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, who raced him under her Fair Stable banner.
A small horse at fifteen hands tall, Sarazen had a difficult temperament that made him hard to handle, and his original owner had him gelded. After his sale to Fair Stable, Sarazen was trained by Max Hirsch, and he wound up his two-year-old racing season undefeated, capturing all ten races he entered. At age three, health problems saw Sarazen's handlers pass up the U.S. Triple Crown races. When he came back to the track, he dominated racing and earned the first of his two consecutive unofficial United States Horse of the Year awards.
Sarazen's 1925 wins included the Dixie Stakes on Preakness Day on the turf at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. He also won the International Special No.3 at the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, over a field of top American and European horses. While setting a Latonia track record, 3-year-old Sarazen defeated Belmont Stakes winner Mad Play, the future Hall of Fame filly Princess Doreen ("The Princess" came back to beat him in the 1926 Saratoga Handicap), and Pierre Wertheimer's 4-year-old colt Epinard, the champion 2-year-old of France who was unofficially named American Champion Older Male Horse.
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