High Quest
High Quest | |
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Sire | Eastern Shore Handicap (1933) (1934)Wood Memorial Stakes U.S. Triple Crown series: Preakness Stakes (1934) |
Last updated on December 20, 2006 |
High Quest (1931–1948) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1934 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series of races.
Background
Racing career
Racing at age two, High Quest won an allowance race at
In 1934, en route to the U.S. Triple Crown races, the three-year-old High Quest won the important Wood Memorial Stakes. His stablemates Cavalcade and Time Clock were entered in the Kentucky Derby, finishing first and seventh respectively. High Quest then replaced Time Clock in the Preakness Stakes and under California jockey Bobby Jones scored the most important win of his career by defeating stablemate Cavalcade by a nose.[1]
Despite sustaining an injury in the Withers Stakes,[2] High Quest competed in the third leg of the Triple Crown series, finishing second in the Belmont Stakes to the Joseph E. Widener colt Peace Chance. An injury shortly before the Arlington Classic ruled him out for the rest of the year[3] and he did not race again.
Stud record
Retired to stud duty, unlike his prominent father, High Quest was less than successful in producing stakes winners with 1946 Santa Anita Handicap winner War Knight probably the best of the lot.
Breeding
Sire Sir Gallahad bay 1920 |
Teddy
bay 1913 |
Ajax | Flying Fox |
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Amie | |||
Rondeau | Bay Ronald | ||
Doremi | |||
Plucky Liege
bay 1912 |
Spearmint | Carbine | |
Maid of the Mint | |||
Concertina | St. Simon | ||
Comic Song | |||
Dam Etoile Filante ch. 1918 |
Fair Play
ch. 1905 |
Hastings | Spendthrift |
Cinderella | |||
Fairy Gold | Bend Or | ||
Dame Masham | |||
Chit Chat
bay 1913 |
Rock Sand | Sainfoin | |
Roquebrune | |||
Chinkara | Galopin | ||
Raker |