Ack Ack (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Ack Ack


caption =
sire = Battle Joined
grandsire = Armageddon
dam = Fast Turn
damsire = Turn-To
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1966
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = Harry F. Guggenheim
owner = Cain Hoy Stable
E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson (1971)
trainer = Frank A. Bonsal
Charlie Whittingham (age 4)
record = 27: 19-6-0
earnings = $636,641
race = Arlington Classic (1969)
Withers Stakes (1969)
Derby Trial (1969)
Los Angeles Handicap (1970)
Santa Anita Handicap (1971)
American Handicap (1971)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1971)
San Carlos Handicap (1971)
San Pasqual Handicap (1971)
awards = U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1971)
U.S. Champion Sprint Horse (1971)
United States Horse of the Year (1971)
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1986)
#44 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Ack Ack Handicap at Churchill Downs
Ack Ack Handicap at Hollywood Park
Holds the 5 1/2 Furlong main track record with 5 other horses at the Del Mar Racetrack
updated= November 15 2006

Ack Ack (1966-1990) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He raced with success at age two to four, scoring wins in the important 1969 Withers Stakes and Arlington Classic. In 1971 at age five, Ack Ack blossomed into the year's most dominant horse. Conditioned by Charlie Whittingham, Ack Ack won seven straight graded stakes races on both dirt and grass courses at a variety of distances. His performances earned him United States Horse of the Year honors.

Owned by Harry F. Guggenheim's Cain Hoy Stable, Ack Ack was sold by the executors of his estate following Guggenheim's death in January 1971. New owner, E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson, husband of actress Greer Garson, retired the horse at the end of his most successful year to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky where he sired 40 stakes winners, including champion sire Broad Brush.

In 1999, The Blood Horse, Inc. declared Ack Ack to be one of the top 100 racehorses of the twentieth century.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/ack+ack Ack Ack's pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=1 Ack Ack at the National Museum and Racing Hall of Fame]