Pompey (horse)

Pompey
Pompey
	American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1925)

Pompey (1923–1944) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Pompey was bred by

2,000 Guineas Stakes and who was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1903 and 1907.^[1] He was trained by William Karrick

.

Racing career

1925: two-year-old season

Pompey won seven of ten starts in 1925 including the

American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt,^[4] Pompey was an early favorite to win the 1926 Kentucky Derby

.

1926: three-year-old season

In his 1926 season debut, Pompey won the May 1st

U.S. Triple Crown series. On May 15, Pompey was sent off as the second choice by bettors in the Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Ridden by Laverne Fator, in the mile and a quarter event the colt faded after three-quarters of a mile and finished fifth to winner, Bubbling Over.^[6] Pompey did not run in the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes

.

Pompey went on to win the Wilton Handicap at

World Record time of 1:48 3/5 for a mile and a furlong on dirt.^[9]

1927: four-year-old season

At age four, Pompey competed with some success, winning the August 1, 1927 Inaugural Handicap at Saratoga Race Course [10] and on August 23 running the fastest six furlongs of the Saratoga summer meet with a time of 1:11 2–5 while winning the Blue Mountain Handicap.^[11]

Stud record

Pompey sired a number of race winners, the best of which were

American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors in 1932 and 1936 respectively. Pompey's top earner, however, was Rippey (b. 1943), a multiple stakes winner whose career earnings topped $299,000.^[12]

Pompey's daughter, Outdone, was the dam of 1958

American Grand National steeplechase winner, Adaptable.^[15]

Pompey died at age twenty-one in 1944.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Pompey, bay stallion, 1923
Sire Sun Briar	Sundridge	Amphion	Rosebery
		Amphion	Suicide
		Sierra	Springfield
		Sierra	Sanda
	Sweet Briar	St. Frusquin	St. Simon
		St. Frusquin	Isabel
		Presentation	Orion
		Presentation	Dubia
Dam Cleopatra	Corcyra	Polymelus	Cyllene
		Polymelus	Maid Marian
		Pearmain	Persimmon
		Pearmain	Nenemoosha
	Gallice	Gallinule	Isonomy
		Gallinule	Moorhen
		St. Cecilia	St. Serf
		St. Cecilia	Melody (family: 3-j)

References

[1] Pompey's pedigree

[2] New York Times – August 30, 1925

[3] Los Angeles Times – September 13, 1925

[4] The Bloodhorse.com Champion's history charts

[5] New York Times – May 2, 1926

[6] New York Times – May 16 1926

[7] New York Times – August 11 1926

[8] New York Times – August 15, 1926

[9] Wilmington, Delaware Sunday Morning Star – September 19, 1926

[10] New York Times – August 2, 1927

[11] New York Times – August 24, 1927

[12] Pompey's progeny

[13] Thoroughbred Heritage

[14] "1951". Kentuckyderby.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.

[15] Thoroughbred Heritage – American Grand National winners Archived 2009-07-03 at the Wayback Machine

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