Bowl of Flowers

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Bowl of Flowers
Sire Sailor
Grandsire Eight Thirty
Dam Flower Bowl
Damsire Alibhai
Sex Filly
Foaled1958
Country United States
Colour Chestnut
Breeder Brookmeade Stud
Owner Brookmeade Stable
Trainer J. Elliott Burch
Record16: 10-3-3
Earnings$398,504 [1]
Major wins
National Stallion Stakes (filly division) (1960)
Gardenia Stakes (1960)
Frizette Stakes (1960)
Spinster Stakes (1961)
Acorn Stakes (1961)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1961)
Awards
U.S. Champion two-year-old filly (1960)
U.S. Champion three-year-old filly (1961)
Honours
United States' Racing Hall of Fame (2004)
Last updated on March 10, 2007

Bowl of Flowers (foaled 1958 in Virginia) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.

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Background

Bowl of Flowers was the product of two horses owned by Isabel Dodge Sloane. Bred at Ms Sloane's Brookmeade Stud in Upperville, Virginia, her sire was Sailor, winner of the 1955 Pimlico Special, and her dam was Flower Bowl, for whom the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park is named. Bowl of Flowers was a half-sister to the successful racehorses and sires Graustark and His Majesty (both by Ribot).

Racing under the banner of Ms Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, Bowl of Flowers was trained by Elliott Burch.

Racing career

At age two, in her eight starts the filly won six races and finished second twice. Her performances earned her 1960 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors. At age three, she continued her winning ways, capturing two of the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Races and finishing second in the third. Once again, Bowl of Flowers' performances earned her the U.S. Champion three-year-old filly title.

Retirement

While training at Hialeah Park Race Track in Florida for the 1962 racing season, Bowl of Flowers fractured a sesamoid bone and was retired. As a broodmare, she produced seven foals including the colt Spruce Bouquet (by Big Spruce), who won the 1981 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap, and the sire Whiskey Road (by Nijinsky), whose progeny included the 1981 Melbourne Cup winner Just A Dash and the international champion Strawberry Road.

Honors

In 2004, Bowl of Flowers was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. [2]

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References

  1. http://www.pedigreequery.com/bowl+of+flowers Bowl of Flowers' pedigree and racing stats
  2. "National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2007-03-18. Bowl of Flowers at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame