With Approval
| With Approval | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Caro |
| Grandsire | Fortino |
| Dam | Passing Mood |
| Damsire | Buckpasser |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | May 9, 1986 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Gray |
| Breeder | Kinghaven Farms |
| Owner | Kinghaven Farms |
| Trainer | Roger Attfield |
| Record | 23: 13-5-1 |
| Earnings | $2,863,540 |
| Major wins | |
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Display Stakes (1988) Marine Stakes (1989) Plate Trial Stakes (1989) Queen's Plate (1989) Prince of Wales Stakes (1989) Breeders' Stakes (1989) Connaught Cup Stakes (1990) Bowling Green Handicap (1990) Tidal Handicap (1990) |
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| Awards | |
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8th Canadian Triple Crown Champion (1989) Canadian 3-yr-Old Champion Colt (1989) Canadian Horse of the Year (1989) |
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| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1993) | |
| Last updated on April 4, 2008 | |
With Approval (May 9, 1986 – June 21, 2010) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour. Even though he missed the rest of his three-year-old season due to injury, he was named the 1989 Canadian Horse of the Year.
At four, With Approval set a new world record of 2:10.26 for 1 3/8 miles on turf while winning the Bowling Green Handicap. He also finished second in the 1990 Breeders' Cup Turf and the Arlington Million. In 1993, With Approval was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
With Approval raced as a homebred for Donald G. Willmot's Kinghaven Farms. He inherited his gray coat from his sire Caro, an Irish-bred stallion who raced in France and was later imported into the United States. Caro was an important sire whose offspring included Kentucky Derby winning filly Winning Colors and Breeders' Cup Mile winner Cozzene.
With Approval's dam was Passing Mood, a stakes-winning mare by leading broodmare sire Buckpasser. Passing Mood, who was also the dam of Belmont Stakes winner Touch Gold, received the 1989 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Broodmare. With Approval is just one of several outstanding horses descended from Cool Mood, a stakes winning daughter of Northern Dancer who was inducted into the Canadian Racing Hall of Fame in 2014.
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