Eight Thirty

Eight Thirty

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Eight Thirty


caption =
sire = Pilate
grandsire = Friar Rock
dam = Dinner Time
damsire = High Time
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1936
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = George D. Widener, Jr.
owner = Erdenheim Farm
trainer = Bert Mulholland
record = 27: 16-3-5
earnings = $155,475
race = Christiana Stakes (1938)
Flash Stakes (1938)
Wilson Stakes (1939)
Saratoga Handicap (1939)
Travers Stakes (1939)
Whitney Handicap (1939)
Suburban Handicap (1940)
Massachusetts Handicap (1940)
Toboggan Handicap (1940 & 1941)
Metropolitan Handicap (1941)
awards=
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1994)
#78 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Eight Thirty Stakes at Delaware Park
updated= January 13, 2007

Eight Thirty (1936-1970) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by George D. Widener, Jr., one of only four people ever named an Exemplar of Racing, Eight Thirty was a descendant of Fair Play who had been purchased from the estate of August Belmont, Jr. by Widener's uncle, Joseph E. Widener.

Racing at age two in 1938, Eight Thirty won two important graded stakes races but was overshadowed by William Ziegler, Jr.'s Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt El Chico.

In 1939, Eight Thirty started his three-year-old racing season slowly and did not enter any of the American Classic Races. However, competing in the East Coast racing scene along with greats such as Johnstown and Challedon, in one month alone, Eight Thirty won four straight important stakes races. He ended his season with seven wins out of his ten starts and racing at age four and five, won another six of ten starts while setting a track record in his win in the 1940 Massachusetts Handicap.

Retired to stud duty at his owner's breeding farm, Eight Thirty proved to be a successful Stallion. He sired 44 stakes winners and was the damsire of 1962 Belmont Stakes winner, Jaipur.

Eight Thirty was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1994.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/eight+thirty Eight Thirty's pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=63 Fair Play at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]


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