Vagrancy (horse)
| Vagrancy | |
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| Sire | Sir Gallahad |
| Grandsire | Teddy |
| Dam | Valkyr |
| Damsire | Man o' War |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1939 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Belair Stud Farm |
| Owner | Belair Stud Farm |
| Trainer | "Sunny" Jim Fitzsimmons |
| Record | 42: 15-8-8 |
| Earnings | $ 102,480 |
| Major wins | |
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Coaching Club American Oaks (1942) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1942) Pimlico Oaks (1942) Delaware Oaks (1942) Alabama Stakes (1942) Gazelle Stakes (1942) Test Stakes (1924) Beldame Stakes (1942) Ladies Handicap (1942) |
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| Awards | |
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American Champion 3-Year-Old Filly (1942) American Champion Older Female Horse (1942) |
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| Honours | |
| Vagrancy Handicap named in honor at Belmont Park | |
Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare.
Vagrancy was a bay filly born in 1939 out of Valkyr by Man o' War. She raced for Belair Stud and was trained for most of her career by “Sunny” Jim Fitzsimmons.
She was a promising winner at age two and then ran twenty-one times at age three, when she was named the 1942 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She was also the champion "handicap" filly that season after beating the older crops in head-to-head races. At age three, she bloomed into the champion of her crop, winning nine stakes races that included the Coaching Club American Oaks, the Pimlico Oaks, the Delaware Oaks, the Alabama Stakes, the Gazelle Stakes and the Test Stakes against her own age, and the Beldame Handicap and Ladies Handicap against older fillies and mares. She compiled a record of ten wins, four seconds, and one third. She was first or second in eleven straight races against her own sex; her second against the boys came in the Lawrence Realization.
Vagrancy raced 42 times and hit the board in 31 of her starts. She won most of the most important stakes races in New York at the time for fillies, including the Ladies Handicap, the Alabama, the Test, the Coaching Club American Oaks, and the Gazelle[1]. One of Vagrancy's most famous race was probably the Beldame Stakes (because of a rare grade 1 outcome), in which she led for most of the race but was caught at the wire by Barrancosa; following a review of the photo, the race was declared a dead heat. From The Times: “William Woodward, of Belair Stud was chairman of the Jockey Club and breeder and owner of Vagrancy, flipped a coin in the unsaddling enclosure after the finish and thereby lost possession for the coming year of the Beldame Trophy. It will travel West to Bing Crosby and Lin Howard, owners of Binglin Stock Farm and importers of Barrancosa.”
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