Vander Pool

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Vander Pool
Sire Campfire
Grandsire Olambala
DamBramble Rose
DamsireVon Tromp
Sex Stallion
Foaled1928
Country United States
Color Bay/Brown
Breeder Claiborne Farm
Owner1) Tennessee Stable
2) William A. Moore
Trainer Dave Robb McDaniel
Record32: 19-3-6
Earnings US$$52,095
Major wins
Aberdeen Stakes (1930)
Bowie Kindergarten Stakes (1930)
Miami Juvenile Stakes (1930)
Whirl Stakes (1930)
Mad Hatter Handicap (1930)
Remsen Handicap (1930)
Youthful Stakes (1930)
St. James Purse (1931)
Rialto Purse (1931)
Greenfield Purse (1931)
Arverne Handicap (1932)
Interborough Handicap (1932)

Vander Pool (foaled 1928 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won all eleven of his starts at age two in 1930 and won his first four races in 1931, tying the twenty-three-year-old North American record for most consecutive wins without a loss set by Colin in 1907/1908.

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Breeding and ownership

Bred by Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, Vander Pool was out of the California-bred mare Bramble Rose and was sired by the 1916 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Campfire. [1] Vander Pool was purchased as a yearling for $2,600 by Mrs. Agnes Allen at the 1929 Saratoga Sales. She raced him under the nom de course , Tennessee Stable. [2]

Undefeated at two

Trained by D. R. "Puddin" McDaniel, nephew of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Henry McDaniel, [3] Vander Pool made his racing debut in January 1930 with a win in a condition race for two-year-olds at a Miami, Florida racetrack. [4] Among his eleven wins in his undefeated 1930 campaign, in April Vander Pool won the Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace Racetrack in which he beat Equipoise. [5] Injured in July, he did not race again until October 15, when he got his tenth win without a loss in the Mad Hatter Handicap at Jamaica Race Course. [6] Three days later, he closed out his racing year with a victory in the Remsen Handicap at the same Jamaica, New York, track. [7]

Vander Pool spent the winter of 1930–31 at Charles Becker's farm in what was then the City of Baltimore, Maryland countryside. At the end of February 1931, he was sent to Pimlico Race Course to begin preparations for a spring campaign that culminated with the May 1 Preakness Stakes and the May 16 Kentucky Derby. [8]

Three-year-old campaign

The January 25, 1932, issue of the Fredericksburg, Virginia Free Lance-Star recounted that Vander Pool had been "rated by many as the Kentucky Derby favorite before suffering an injury in training." [9] That injury kept him from competing in the U.S. Triple Crown races. His first start came on July 6, 1931, and Vander Pool earned his twelfth straight win in the St. James Purse at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York in which he defeated Flying Heels, a horse the New York Times called "one of the best sprinters in training." [10] Vander Pool won again before capturing the Rialto Purse at Empire City Race Track for his fourteenth win. [11] On the same racetrack on July 25, 1931, he won the Greenfield Purse, giving him fifteen straight races without a loss, which tied a twenty-three-year-old record set by Colin in 1907/08. [12] In his sixteenth career race on November 26, 1931, Vander Pool suffered his first defeat in the six-furlong Aero Handicap at Bowie Racetrack. [13]

In December 1931, Mrs. Agnes Allen sold Vander Pool to William A. Moore [14] who raced him for the rest of his career, notably winning the 1932 Arverne and Interborough Handicaps. Following an unsuccessful career at stud, in 1938 William Moore sold Vander Pool to the United States Army Cavalry Remount Service. [15]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Vander Pool
Sire
Campfire 		Olambala Ornus Bend Or
Ashgrove
Blue and White Virgil
Madam Dudley
Nightfall Voter Friar's Balsam
Mavourneen
Sundown Springfield
Sunshine
Dam
Bramble Rose		Von Tromp Ben Brush Bramble
Roseville
Cinderella Hermit
Mazurka
RosegalGalveston Galopin
Hamptonia
Rosormonde Ormonde
Fairy Rose

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