Hail To Reason

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Hail To Reason


caption =
sire = Turn-To
grandsire = Royal Charger
dam = Nothirdchance
damsire = Blue Swords
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1958
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Dark Brown
breeder = Bieber-Jacobs Stable
owner = Hirsch Jacobs
Harbor View Farm
trainer = Hirsch Jacobs
record = 18: 9-2-2
earnings = $328,434
race = World's Playground Stakes (1960)
Hopeful Stakes (1960)
Sapling Stakes (1960)
Tremont Stakes (1960)
Sanford Stakes (1960)
Great American Stakes (1960)
Youthful Stakes (1960)
awards= American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1960)
Leading sire in North America (1970)
honours =
updated= October 3, 2007

Hail To Reason (1958 - February 24, 1976) was an American thoroughbred racehorse and an influential sire. He was bred in Kentucky by the Bieber-Jacobs Stable, a partnership of prominent horsemen, Isadore Bieber and Hirsch Jacobs. He was sired by the English stakes winner Turn-To, a grandson of the very influential sire Nearco. Hail To Reason was out of the mare, Nothirdchance, whose sire, Blue Swords, came in second in both the 1943 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Hail to Reason was a big homebred. His dam, Nothirdchance was named by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame owner/trainer Hirsch Jacobs as a warning to the Allies to not allow Germany to start another war. Hail to Reason was named in response to his fulfilled hopes.

Starting in January of his second year, Hail To Reason raced 18 times in nine months, winning 9, and setting a new track record in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Race Course with jockey, Bobby Ussery, aboard, along the way.

Unfortunately, on a morning workout in September, he lost a shoe, and broke both sesamoid bones in his near front leg, ending his career. However, he was still named 1960 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt for his performances.

Retirement

Retired to stud at Hagyard Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, Hail To Reason was very successful and named Champion US Sire for 1970. His progeny includes Halo, English and Irish Champion Roberto, Bold Reason, Kentucky Derby winner Proud Clarion, Belmont Stakes winner, Hail To All, Preakness Stakes winner Personality, Stop The Music, and Cum Laude Laurie.

Hail to Reason was also a very successful broodmare sire whose daughters have produced more than one hundred stakes winners including Allez France and Triptych. Another daughter, Reason to Earn, is the dam of Bold Reasoning, sire of 1977 U.S. Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew.

At 18, Hail To Reason was humanely put down on February 24, 1976, and is buried at Hagyard Farm.

Resources

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/hail+to+reason Pedigree & Partial Stats]
* [http://www.stallions.com.au/historical/biography.asp?sName=hail_to_reason Stallion History Hail To Reason]
* [http://www.reines-de-course.com/hail_to_reason.htm Hail To Reason]
* [http://www.tbheritage.com/TurfHallmarks/Graves/cem/GraveMattersHagyard.html TB Heritage Hagyard]