Peace Chance

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Peace Chance


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sire = Chance Shot
grandsire = Fair Play
dam = Peace
damsire = Stefan The Great
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1931
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Elmendorf Farm
owner = Joseph E. Widener
trainer = Pete Coyne
record = 13: 5-5-0
earnings = $46,660
race = Derby Trial Stakes (1934)

American Classic Race wins:
Belmont Stakes (1934)
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Peace Chance (foaled 1931) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1934 Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series.

Peace Chance was bred and raced by Joseph E. Widener and trained by Pete Coyne who had won the 1927 Belmont Stakes with his sire, Chance Shot. At age two, the colt's best result was a second in the Remsen Stakes. At age three, he was ridden by 17-year-old jockey Wayne Wright to a new record for the mile in the 1934 Derby Trial Stakes. Wright was aboard the colt in the Kentucky Derby but Peace Chance was kicked by another horse at the start and finished far back in fifth place.

Peace Chance did not run in the Preakness Stakes, but defeated Preakness winner High Quest by six lengths in the Belmont Stakes. Following his win in the Belmont, Peace Chance was being prepared for the Arlington Classic when he suffered a career-ending injury.

Retired to stud, Peace Chance had limited success but did sire Arbitrator, whose offspring produced the the very important Champion sire, Halo, as well as the 20th Century's greatest sire, Northern Dancer.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/peace+chance Pedigree for Peace Chance]
* Simon, F. Kevin, "The WPA Guide to Kentucky" (1996) University Press of Kentucky ISBN 978-0813108650
* Hunter, Avalyn. "American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002)" (2003) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1581500950