- Editor's Note
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Editor's Note
caption =
sire = Forty Niner
grandsire =Mr. Prospector
dam = Beware Of The Cat
damsire = Caveat
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1993
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = Fawn Leap Farm
owner =Overbrook Farm
trainer =D. Wayne Lukas
record = 31: 6-4-3
earnings = $1,601,394
race =Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes (1995)Super Derby (1996)Holy Bull Stakes (1996)American Classic Race wins:
Belmont Stakes (1996)
awards=
honours =
updated= August 16, 2007Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in
Kentucky ) is an Americanthoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sireMr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat.Trained by
D. Wayne Lukas and ridden by Rene Douglas, who was given the assignment after Gary Stevens was injured, he is best known for his classic stretch dual withSkip Away in the 1996Belmont Stakes , beatingPreakness Stakes winner Louis Quatorze, who was unplaced. This was the same race in which theSanta Anita Derby winner,Cavonnier , bowed a tendon and was unable to finish.Retirement
Editor's Note was originally retired in 1997 to
Overbrook Farm in Lexington, Kentucky but was exported in 2004 toArgentina .References
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/editors+note Pedigree & Partial Stats]
External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1996/horses/belmont.htm Washington Post Lukas Wins Belmont Again]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E7D7143AF934A1575AC0A961958260 NY Times Editor's Note Retired]
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