Gamely (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Gamely


caption =
sire = Bold Ruler
grandsire = Nasrullah
dam = Gambetta
damsire = My Babu
sex = Filly
foaled = 1964
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Claiborne Farm
owner = William Haggin Perry
trainer = James W. Maloney, Jr.
record = 41 Starts: 16-9-6
earnings= $574,961
race = Princess Stakes (1967)
Test Stakes (Division 1, 1967)
Alabama Stakes (1967)
Vanity Handicap (1968)
Santa Margarita Handicap (1968)
Santa Maria Handicap (1968)
Beldame Stakes (1968 & 1969)
Inglewood Handicap (1968)
Wilshire Stakes (1969)
Santa Monica Handicap (1969)
Diana Handicap (1969)
awards= American Champion Older Female Horse (1968 & 1969; 1969 shared with Gallant Bloom)
honours = Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1979)
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1980)
#87 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Gamely Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack
updated= January 11, 2008

Gamely was a Thoroughbred race horse bred and born in 1964 at Claiborne Farm outside Paris, Kentucky. By the time of her arrival, Claiborne was being run as a partnership between Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock who preferred racing to breeding, and William Haggin Perry who preferred breeding. Fact|date=January 2008

Gamely was a product of Perry's breeding practices. He bred the stakes winning mare Gambetta to the great sire Bold Ruler. Gambetta’s dam, Rough Shod II, also produced the splendid filly Moccasin, the fine colt Ridan, and Lt. Stevens, a major stakes winner. Perry’s feeling for Gamely, the filly with the Roman nose, was reflected in the name of his breeding operation: The Gamely Corporation.

As for racing, that came under the aegis of the Hall of Fame trainer James Maloney, Jr.. Maloney felt she was too big to race at two. The filly stood over 16.2 hands high. Like the great Longfellow many years before her, and the enormous Roseben as well, her legs got in her way as a youngster. Therefore, Gamely’s career did not begin until her third year. She began in California winning the Princess Stakes, coming second in the California Oaks and the Railbird Stakes. Then she was sent east to the venerable track at Saratoga, New York where she won the Test Stakes and the Alabama Stakes. In the Test, she set a seven furlong track record.

Gamely’s entire career can be summed up in her name. She was game, beating males in thrilling stretch duels (she was second to Dr. Fager in the 1968 Californian Stakes; this was year the Doctor won four titles, chief among them: Horse of the Year), carrying heavy weights, and running for three seasons in 41 races.

When she retired in her fifth year, her winnings, at the time, were the highest among her sire, Bold Ruler’s, offspring.

Bred to Round Table twice, and twice producing a foal, she died five days after her second foal of a ruptured stomach. She is buried at Claiborne Farm.

External links

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/gamely Gamely’s pedigree plus photo]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=80 Gamely in the Hall of Fame]