Sunfire (horse)

Sunfire
Sunfire
Sire	Toronto Cup Handicap (1928, 1929); Windsor Hotel Cup Handicap (1928); Ballston Handicap (1929)
	Last updated on November 4, 2021

Sunfire (foaled 1925 in

Richard T. Wilson, Jr.

Background

Sunfire was sired by Wilson's

American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Campfire, and Belmont and Preakness Stakes winner Pillory

.

Racing career

Sunfire was conditioned for racing by future

Cleveland Ohio.^[1] In winning the Ohio Derby under jockey Roger Leonard, Sunfire set a new Bainbridge Park Race Track course record of 1:52 1/5 for a mile and a furlong.^[2]

At

Blue Bonnets Raceway in Montreal Sunfire won the eighteenth edition of the Windsor Hotel Cup Handicap. A race open to horses age three and older, Sunfire was the only three-year-old in a field of seven runners.^[3]

Raced again at age four, back in Toronto Sunfire won his second straight Toronto Cup Handicap and ran second to Preakness Stakes runner-up Sir Harry in the 1929 King Edward Gold Cup Handicap.^[1]

Sunfire was not successful at stud.

External links

Sunfire's pedigree and partial racing stats

References

^ ^a ^b 2018 Woodbine Media Guide Archived October 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Sunfire Captures $12,000 Ohio Derby". New York Times, Section Sports, page 7. 1928-08-12. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
^ "Daily Racing Form Charts: Blue Bonnets". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1928-06-25. Retrieved 2021-11-04.

[SUN1-1] 2018 Woodbine Media Guide Archived October 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Sunfire Captures $12,000 Ohio Derby". New York Times, Section Sports, page 7. 1928-08-12. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

[3] "Daily Racing Form Charts: Blue Bonnets". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1928-06-25. Retrieved 2021-11-04.

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