Zippy Chippy

Zippy Chippy
Sire	Compliance
Dam	Listen Lady
Damsire	Buckfinder
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	1991
Country	United States
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Capritaur Farm
Owner	Felix Monserrate
Trainer	Felix Monserrate
Record	100:0-8-12
Earnings	$30,834
Major wins
None
Last updated on July 7, 2008

Zippy Chippy (born April 20, 1991) is a thoroughbred race horse, a bay gelding, who is most notable for being winless in 100 races.

Zippy Chippy's pedigree includes many famous horses, such as Ben Brush, Buckpasser, Busanda, Bold Ruler, Count Fleet, Man o' War, Nasrullah, Native Dancer, Northern Dancer, Round Table, Tom Fool, War Admiral and the greatest "blue hen" broodmare of the twentieth century, La Troienne.

Owned and trained by Felix Monserrate and bred by Capritaur Farm, Zippy Chippy is New York bred. Tom Gilcoyne, a retired historian for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York, said that Zippy Chippy "...hasn't done anything to harm the sport. But it's a little bit like looking at the recorded performances of all horse races through the wrong end of the telescope."

Felix Monserrate, who had boarded Zippy Chippy, acquired the horse in 1995 in a trade for a 1988 Ford truck. Eventually, Zippy Chippy was banned from competing at numerous tracks. The only track not to ban him was at the Northampton Fair.

In August 2001, he came home first against a minor league baseball player in a 120-foot (37 m) race. (Although there are sources that say he lost this 40-yard dash, it seems there may have been two races. On August 18, 2000, Rochester outfielder José Herrera outran Zippy Chippy in a 40-yard race.) Zippy also won against a harness racer called Paddy's Laddy. He squeaked past Paddy's Laddy and his rig to win by a neck in a publicity stunt in which he spotted the trotter a twenty-length lead.

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