One Hitter

One Hitter
Sire	Shut Out
Grandsire	Equipoise
Dam	Bold Anna
Damsire	Bold Venture
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1946
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Greentree Stud
Owner	Greentree Stable
Trainer	John M. Gaver Sr.
Record	88: 18-14-16
Earnings	US$306,775
Major wins
	Manhattan Handicap (1950); Questionnaire Handicap (1950); Pimlico Special (1950); Massachusetts Handicap (1951); Edgemere Handicap (1951); Whitney Stakes (1951); Suburban Handicap (1952); Saratoga Handicap (1952); Monmouth Handicap (1952); Merchants and Citizens Handicap (1953)

Last updated June 04, 2019

One Hitter (foaled 1946 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by the Greentree Stable of Joan Whitney Payson and her brother, John Hay Whitney.

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered "hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit.

Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne Whitney, who also had a large stable of horses. Greentree Stable had a training base at Aiken, South Carolina, while Greentree Farm in Lexington, Kentucky was established in 1925 as its breeding arm.

Joan Whitney Payson American socialite, art collector

Joan Whitney Payson was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own a major-league team in North America without inheriting it.

Breeding

One Hitter was sired by Shut Out, the Greentree bred and owned Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner of 1942 who in turn was a son of Equipoise. Owned by Whitney family members Harry Payne Whitney and his son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Equipoise is a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who was a six-time U. S. Champion including 1932 and 1933 American Horse of the Year as well as the Leading sire in North America in 1942. Shut Out's dam was the stakes winning Goose Egg, another Greentree homebred.

Shut Out was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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

The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles (2.0 km) at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds and fillies 121 pounds.

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg); fillies 121 lb (55 kg). It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes.

One Hitter's dam was the Greentree homebred Bold Anna, a daughter of the 1936 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, Bold Venture. Bold Anna's dam was the very good racemare Nedana who frequently raced against, and often beat, her male counterparts.

Bold Venture, was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Racing career

One Hitter raced for six years. Racing at age two and three, he was entered in some of the better races for his age group but did not win. From age four through seven he began winning some of the most prestigious handicaps on the East Coast of the United States.^[1]

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean. The coastal states that have shoreline on the Atlantic Ocean are, from north to south, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

In winning the Questionnaire Handicap, One Hitter set a new Empire City Race Track speed record of 1:42 2/5 for a mile and a sixteenth on dirt.^[2]

The Questionnaire Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race named in honor of the horse Questionnaire who was bred and raced by James Butler, the late president and owner of Empire City Race Track. The race was held from its inception in 1938 through 1942 at the Empire City RaceTrack in Yonkers, New York but with the United States becoming involved in World War II, in 1943 rationing and other wartime limitations resulted in the Empire City Association's decision to go back to hosting only harness racing. The Questionnaire Handicap was then moved to the Jamaica Race Course where it would run under the sponsorship of the Empire City Association through 1953 when it had its final running.

Retired to stud for his owners, One Hitter produced several stakes winners but no top level runners.

Pedigree

Pedigree of One Hitter
Sire Shut Out	Equipoise	Pennant	Peter Pan
		Pennant	Royal Rose
		Swinging	Broomstick
		Swinging	Balancoire
	Goose Egg	Chicle	Spearmint
		Chicle	Lady Hamburg
		Oval	Fair Play
		Oval	Olympia
Dam Bold Anna	Bold Venture	St. Germans	Swynford
		St. Germans	Hamoaze
		Possible	Ultimus
		Possible	Lida Flush
	Nedana	Negofol	Childwick
		Negofol	Nebrouze
		Adana	Adam
		Adana	Mannie Himyar (family: 23-b)

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References

↑ Equibase statiscics for One Hitter Retrieved August 1, 2018
↑ New York Times July 9, 1950 article titled "One Hitter Clips Jamaica Record" Retrieved August 1, 2018

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[1] Equibase statiscics for One Hitter Retrieved August 1, 2018

[2] New York Times July 9, 1950 article titled "One Hitter Clips Jamaica Record" Retrieved August 1, 2018