Market Wise

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Market Wise
Sire Brokers Tip
Grandsire Black Toney
DamOn Hand
DamsireOn Watch
Sex Stallion
Foaled1938
CountryUnited States
Colour Bay
Breeder Cary T. Grayson
OwnerLouis Tufano
Trainer George W. Carroll
Record53: 19-7-10
Earnings US$222,140 [1]
Major wins
Wood Memorial (1941)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1941)
Gallant Fox Handicap (1941)
Governor Bowie Handicap (1941)
Edgemere Handicap (1941)
Pimlico Special (1941)
McLennan Handicap (1942)
Suburban Handicap (1942)
Narragansett Special (1943)
Massachusetts Handicap (1943)
Awards
TSD American Champion Older Male Horse (1943)

Market Wise (foaled 1938 in Virginia) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Background

Bred by Cary T. Grayson, Market Wise was out of On Hand, and his sire was the 1933 Kentucky Derby winner, Brokers Tip. He was purchased by New York contractor Louis Tufano for $1,000. [2] He was trained by George W. Carroll.

Kentucky Derby American stakes race for Thoroughbreds, part of the Triple Crown

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Racing career

1940 & 1941: early career

Market Wise raced in 1940 at age two with little success. Going into the April 26, 1941, Wood Memorial Stakes, the then three-year-old had earned only $4,975, but he upset the favorite, King Cole, to win with a come-from-behind stretch drive. [3] Flush with over $16,000 in winnings from the race, owner Louis Tufano hired a private railcar to transport his horse to Louisville, Kentucky to run in the Derby. [4] Market Wise ran third to winner Whirlaway in the 1941 Kentucky Derby and second to him in the Dwyer Stakes. He later defeated Whirlaway in the 1941 Jockey Club Gold Cup while setting a new American record for two miles. The colt went on to win the Gallant Fox Handicap and on September 6 set a new Aqueduct Racetrack track record in winning the 1⅛ mile Edgemere Handicap. On October 30, 1941, Market Wise earned his most important win of the year in the Pimlico Special under regular jockey Wendell Eads. Two weeks later, on the same Pimlico Race Course, he won the one and five eights mile Governor Bowie Handicap in track-record time. [5] In the balloting for 1941 American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse honors, Market Wise finished second to U.S. Triple Crown winner, Whirlaway.

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1942: four-year-old season

Sent to Florida for the 1941-1942 winter season, Market Wise finished fourth in the January 1942 Kendall Purse at seven furlongs. Hampered by a foot injury, he then finished third in the Hialeah Stakes. In February 1942, he beat a top field in the important McLennan Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track. [6] He won again a week later on February 29 and then finished off the board as the heavy favorite in the March 8th Widener Challenge Cup Handicap, the most important race for older horses during the Florida winter season. [7]

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A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains.

The McLennan Handicap was an American thoroughbred horse race run annually each February from 1934–1961 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. First run in 1934 as the Joseph McLennan Memorial Handicap, the race was named In honor of the late Joseph "Sandy" McLennan, the former racing secretary at Hialeah Park and at Chicago's Arlington Park who died in December 1933. In winning the first edition in 1934, Col. Edward R. Bradley's Blessed Event equaled the world record for a mile and an eighth on dirt. In 1938 the race name was shortened to the McLennan Memorial Handicap and shortened again in 1948 to the McLennan Handicap.

Hialeah Park Race Track

The Hialeah Park Race Track is a historic racetrack in Hialeah, Florida. Its site covers 40 square blocks of central-east side Hialeah from Palm Avenue east to East 4th Avenue, and from East 22nd Street on the south to East 32nd Street on the north. On March 5, 1979, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Another listing for it was added in 1988. The Hialeah Park Race Track is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Hialeah Station at Palm Avenue and East 21st Street.

Returning north for the summer racing season, Market Wise defeated Whirlaway in the 1942 Suburban Handicap.

The Suburban Handicap is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to horses age three and older, it is now run at the ​1 1⁄4 mile distance on dirt for a $500,000 purse.

1943: five-year-old season

Market Wise raced at age five in 1943. On the way to being voted American Co-Champion Older Male Horse, he won the Massachusetts Handicap and the Narragansett Special. In the Massachusetts Handicap in July, Market Wise carried top weight of 126 pounds and won with an "amazing last-minute burst" in a stakes record of 1:52.6 despite sustaining a "spread foot". [8] Two months later in the Narragansett Special, he produced a powerful late run to catch Air Master in the closing stages, with Thumbs Up third and Shut Out fourth. He returned to the winners' circle limping badly after sustaining a quarter crack. [9]

Massachusetts Handicap

The Massachusetts Handicap, frequently referred to as the "MassCap," was a flat thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and up held annually at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was an ungraded stakes race run over a distance of 9 furlongs on dirt. The race received Grade III status by the American Graded Stakes Committee for 2009, but the race was never held. The MassCap was stripped of its graded status in 2011 as a result of not being run for two consecutive years.

The Narragansett Special was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Narragansett Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. At the time of its inaugural running in 1934, the Narragansett Special offered a purse of $25,000 added money making it the biggest race run at the track. Only Suffolk Downs' Massachusetts Handicap had a bigger purse in New England. Both rich contests drew the best talent that the nation had to offer.

In December, Market Wise, described as "Mr. Rags to Riches," topped the annual poll of writers and broadcasters conducted by Turf and Sports Digest magazine for the title of American Champion Older Male Horse with 176 points, ahead of Thumbs Up (171), Shut Out (154), and Devil Diver (138). [10] The rival Daily Racing Form award went to Devil Diver.

Stud record

Retired to stud, Market Wise met with modest success as a stallion. In addition to multiple stakes winner Wise Margin, he sired the very speedy To Market, a colt who in 1952 set two track records for 1¼ miles with a time of 2:01.40 in both the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in Boston and the Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap at Hawthorne Race Course in Chicago. To Market sired Hurry to Market, the 1963 American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Market Wise
Sire
Brokers Tip 		Black Toney Peter Pan Commando
Cinderella
Belgravia Ben Brush
Bonnie Gal
Forteresse Sardanapale Prestige
Gemma
GuerriereOssian
Amazone
Dam
On Hand		On Watch Colin Commando
Pastorella
Rubia GrandaGreenan
The Great Ruby
Kippy Broomstick Ben Brush
Elf
Seamstress Star Shoot
Busy Maid

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References

  1. ↑ "Market Wise's pedigree and partial racing stats". Pedigreequery.com. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  2. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search".
  3. ↑ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
  4. ↑ "Sport: The Derby Is Coming". TIME. 1941-05-05. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  5. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search".
  6. ↑ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
  7. ↑ "Market Wise Is Heavy Favorite To Win Widener". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. 1942-03-06. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  8. ↑ "The Vancouver Sun - Google News Archive Search".
  9. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mVkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=27YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=976,5438755&dq=massachusetts-handicap+market-wise&hl=en
  10. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zwQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0tMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4570,2715028&dq=handicap+champion+market-wise&hl=en
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