Sailor II

Sailor
Sire	Eight Thirty
Grandsire	Pilate
Dam	Flota
Damsire	Jack High
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1952
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Brookmeade Stable
Owner	Isabel Dodge Sloane
Trainer	Preston M. Burch
Record	21: 12-3-1
Earnings	$321,075
Major wins
	Pimlico Special (1955); Roamer Handicap (1955); Toboggan Handicap (1955); Fall Highweight Handicap (1955); Gulfstream Park Handicap (1956); John B. Campbell Handicap (1956)

Last updated June 04, 2019

Sailor (foaled 1952 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by heiress Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, he was out of the Brookmeade mare Flota and sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Eight Thirty.

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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.

Sailor was conditioned for racing by Hall of Fame trainer Preston Burch. As a three-year-old in 1955, the colt did not run in any of the U.S. Triple Crown races. However, under regular rider Hedley Woodhouse he won four major races that year, including the prestigious Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. At age four, he began the year competing in Florida, where he won the Gulfstream Park Handicap, then back at Pimlico Race Course he captured the John B. Campbell Handicap, at the time a race of national importance.

Preston Morris Burch was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, breeder, and owner.

Hedley John Woodhouse was a Canadian jockey who won the New York state riding championship in 1953. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack as an apprentice with A.C.T. Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor. Woodhouse's ability would soon see him racing at tracks along the West Coast of the United States and in 1944 he rode Happy Issue to victory in the Grade I Vanity Handicap and Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.

The Pimlico Special is a Grade 3 American thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and older over a distance of 1 ¹⁄₄ miles held at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland in mid May. The race currently offers a purse of $300,000.

As a sire

Retired to stud duty at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Sailor sired a number of stakes winners, notably the outstanding Hall of Fame filly Bowl of Flowers, Travers Stakes winner Crewman, and 1964 American Champion Sprint Horse Ahoy.

A stud animal is a registered animal retained for breeding. The terms for the male of a given animal species usually imply that the animal is intact—that is, not castrated—and therefore capable of siring offspring. A specialized vocabulary exists for de-sexed animals and those animals used in grading up to a purebred status.

Darby Dan Farm is a produce, livestock, and thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm founded in 1935 near the Darby Creek in Galloway, Ohio by businessman John W. Galbreath. Named for the creek and for Galbreath's son, Daniel M. Galbreath (1928-1995), it was expanded from an original 85-acre (340,000 m²) farm into a 4,000 acre (16 km²) estate. Established in 1954 on the original area, Darby House today serves as a banquet and retreat facility. Still in the hands of the Galbreath family, it has 250 acres (1 km²) of woodlands, a 110-acre (0.4 km²) animal preserve, and approximately 3000 acres (12 km²) used for the commercial growing of food crops. The horse farm has 750 acres (3 km²) of blue grass pasture plus a large number of barns and breeding facilities. As well, 39 houses were built on the property.

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References

Sailor's pedigree and partial racing stats

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