Halo (horse)
| Halo | |
|---|---|
| Sire | United Nations Handicap (1974) |
| Awards | |
| Leading sire in North America (1983, 1989) | |
| Last updated on July 2, 2007 | |
Halo (February 7, 1969 – November 28, 2000) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and an important Champion sire.
Background
Bred in
Purchased by
Nijinsky
, Halo raced under his Cragwood Stable banner.
Racing career
After having little success at age two racing on dirt tracks, in his three-year-old campaign his
United Nations Handicap
.
Stud record
After retiring from racing, in 1975 Halo was sent to stand at
Windfields Farm, where his progeny included Sunny's Halo and, through his mating with the mare Ballade, Devil's Bag, Glorious Song, and Saint Ballado. In 1984, new majority owners moved Halo to stand at Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky, where he continued to produce notable offspring, the star of which was Sunday Silence. In all, Halo sired seven champions and 62 stakes winners including two Kentucky Derby winners. Twice, he was the leading sire in North America
.
Halo was pensioned in 1997 and died at Stone Farm in 2000 at age thirty-one.[2]
Offspring
Halo was the sire of:[3]
- Sunny's Halo – won 1983 Kentucky Derby
- Sunday Silence – won 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic. The U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee is the most successful sire in the world by progeny earnings
- 1983 U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt
- 1980 Canadian Horse of the Year
- Arlington Classic Stakes, sire of Saint Liam and Ashado
- Goodbye Halo – filly won six Grade I stakes, earned in excess of $1.7 million
- Philip H. Iselin Handicap, earned in excess of $1.2 million
- Swaps Stakes, earned in excess of $1.5 million
- Present Value – multiple stakes winner, earned in excess of $1.1 million
- Southern Halo – Leading Sire in Argentina for eleven years, sire of 170 stakes winners.
Grandsire of:
- Agnes Tachyon – Leading sire in Japan (2008)
- 1998 U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt
- 2005 U.S. Champion Older Female Horse
- Deep Impact – won 2005 Japanese Triple Crown, Japan Horse of the Year (2005, 2006), Leading sire of Japan (2012-22); sire of Gentildonna and Contrail
- Devil His Due – multiple Grade I stakes winner, earned in excess of $3.9 million
- Heart's Cry – won the Dubai Sheema Classic and Arima Kinen; sire of Just A Way
- Manhattan Cafe – Leading sire in Japan (2009)
- 2005 U.S. Horse of the Year
- Special Week – multiple Grade I winner; sire of Buena Vista
- Stay Gold – won the Dubai Sheema Classic and Hong Kong Vase; sire of Orfevre, Gold Ship, and Oju Chosan
- Taiki Shuttle – 1998 Japan Horse of the Year
- Zenno Rob Roy – Multiple Grade I winner, 2004 Japan Horse of the Year
- Team - Multiple Grade I winner, 1998 Argentinian Horse of the Year
Damsire of:
- Coup de Genie – multiple Group I winner, 1993 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly in France
- King Halo - foaled by Goodbye Halo; won the Takamatsunomiya Kinen in 2000
- Machiavellian – 1989 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt in France
- Pine Bluff – winner of the 1992 Arkansas Derby and Preakness Stakes
- Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland
- 1996 U.S. Champion Male Turf Horse
Pedigree
| Sire Hail To Reason brown 1958 |
Turn-To b. 1951 |
Royal Charger ch. 1942 |
Nearco |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Princess | |||
| Source Sucree br. 1940 |
Admiral Drake | ||
| Lavendula | |||
| Nothirdchance b. 1948 |
Blue Swords b. 1940 |
Blue Larkspur | |
| Flaming Swords | |||
| Galla Colors b. 1943 |
Sir Gallahad | ||
| Rouge Et Noir | |||
| Dam Cosmah bay 1953 |
Cosmic Bomb dkb/br. 1944 |
Pharamond br. 1925 |
Phalaris |
| Selene | |||
| Banish Fear br. 1932 |
Blue Larkspur | ||
| Herodiade | |||
| Almahmoud ch. 1947 |
Mahmoud gr. 1933 |
Blenheim | |
| Mah Mahal | |||
| Arbitrator b. 1937 |
Peace Chance | ||
| Mother Goose (Family 2-d) |
Halo is inbred 4x4 to Blue Larkspur, meaning Blue Larkspur appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
References
- ^ http://www.pedigreequery.com/halo Halo's pedigree and partial racing stats
- ^ http://www.stonefarm.com/halo.html Halo's profile at Stone Farm
- ^ http://www.galopp-sieger.de/galoppsieger/stammtafel_html?startPferd=HaloHail%20to%20Re&fart=&ftype=&tiefe=5&suchePferd=Halo&efil= Halo's progeny for five generations at Galopp-Sieger.de
- ^ "Halo pedigree". www.equineline.com. Retrieved 2018-06-03.