Now What (horse)

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Now What
Sire Chance Play
Grandsire Fair Play
DamThat's That
DamsireHigh Time
Sex Filly
Foaled1937
CountryUnited States
Colour Chestnut
Breeder Three D's Stock Farm
Owner Alfred G. Vanderbilt II
Trainer Joseph H. "Bud" Stotler
Record19: 5-4-0
EarningsUS$37,045
Major wins
Arlington Lassie Stakes (1939)
Astoria Stakes (1939)
Demoiselle Stakes (1939)
Spinaway Stakes (1939)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1939)

Now What (foaled 1937, in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. [1] Her dam was That's That, and her sire was the 1927 American Horse of the Year and two-time Leading sire in North America, Chance Play. [2]

Bred by Guy and E. Paul Waggoner's Three D's Stock Farm of Fort Worth, Texas, Now What was raced by Alfred G. Vanderbilt II. Trained by Bud Stotler, she earned National Champion honors at age two after winning four important stakes races and running second in the Pimlico Nursery Stakes, and Juvenile Stakes. As a three-year-old, her best result in a top-level race was a second place finish in the Molly Brant Handicap at Saratoga Race Course.

Now What served as a broodmare for Vanderbilt. Her most successful foal to race was Next Move, the 1950 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and the 1952 American Co-Champion Older Female Horse. [3]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Now What, chestnut mare, 1937
Sire
Chance Play
Fair Play Hastings Spendthrift
Cinderella
Fairy Gold Bend Or
Dame Masham
Quelle ChanceEthelbertEothen
Maori
Quelle Est Belle Rock Sand
Queens Bower
Dam
That's That
High Time Ultimus Commando
Running Stream
Noonday Domino
Sundown
Rush BoxBoxOrder
Pandora
Sallie WardSingleton
Belle Nutter (family: 20)

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