- Bed O' Roses
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Bed o' Roses
caption =
sire = Rosemont
grandsire = The Porter
dam = Good Thing
damsire = Discovery
sex =Filly
foaled = 1947
country =United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder =Alfred G. Vanderbilt II
owner =Sagamore Farm
trainer =William C. Winfrey
record = 20: 14-5-1
earnings = $383,925
race =Demoiselle Stakes (1949)
Matron Stakes (1949)Selima Stakes (1949)Lawrence Realization Stakes (1950)
awards= U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (1949)
U.S. Champion Older Female Horse (1951)
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1976)Bed O' Roses Handicap atAqueduct Racetrack
updated= September 7, 2008Bed o' Roses (
1947 -January 5 ,1953 ) was an Americanthoroughbred racehorse .Bed o' Roses was a bay
filly by Rosemont-Good Thing, by Discovery, owned and bred by Alfred G. Vanderbilt II'sSagamore Farm . Trained by Bill Winfrey and ridden byEric Guerin , she won the 1949 Grade 1 Matron Stakes for two-year-old fillies atBelmont Park plus eight other important races. At the end of the season, Bed o' Roses was named theAmerican Champion Two-Year-Old Filly .Racing as a three-year-old, Bed o' Roses defeated a quality field including colts in the 1 5/8 mile
Lawrence Realization Stakes and finished second in theTravers Stakes and theArlington Classic . After recovering from an injury that kept her out of racing for seven months, Bed o' Roses returned to win two more important races enroute to being voted Champion Handicap Filly for the year. She continued to race at ages four and five, retiring after three races in 1952.However, she suddenly died a few months later on January 5, 1953 from an organic disorder. She was just about to be bred to
Count Fleet .Bed o' Roses is buried at Sagamore Farm, Maryland.
In 1976, she was inducted in the
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame .External links
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/bed+o+roses Bed o' Roses pedigree]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=26Bed Bed o'Roses at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]
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