- Open Fire (horse)
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Open Fire Sire Cochise Grandsire Boswell Dam Lucy Lufton Damsire Nimbus Sex Mare Foaled 1961 Country United States Colour Bay Breeder Renappi Corp. Owner Brandywine Stable Trainer Virgil W. "Buddy" Raines Record 30: 13-6-5 Earnings $227,329 Major wins Delaware Handicap (1966)
Spinster Stakes (1966)
Diana Handicap (1966)Awards Co-United States Champion Older Mare Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Last updated on August 5, 2008 Open Fire (1961-1980) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Her sire was Brandywine Stable's multiple stakes winner Cochise, and her grandsire was the winner of the 1936 British Classic, the St. Leger Stakes. Open Fire was out of the mare Lucy Lufton, whose sire Nimbus was a son of Nearco, one of the world's most influential sires in the history of Thoroughbred racing.
Owned and raced under the Brandywine Stable banner by Delaware Park Racetrack president Donald P. Ross, Open Fire was trained by Buddy Raines. A late developer, in 1966 the five-year-old was one of the dominant mares in American racing whose performances earned her Co-United States Champion Older Mare. That year, she had three major stakes wins, set a new track record for 1 1/8 miles at Saratoga Race Course, and equaled the Delaware Park Racetrack record for 1 1/4 miles.
Retired to broodmare duty, Open Fire produced seven foals.
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- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Racehorses bred in Virginia
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