Cavalcade (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Cavalcade


caption =
sire = Lancegaye
grandsire = Swynford
dam = Hastily
damsire = Hurry On
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1931
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = F. Wallis Armstrong
owner =
trainer = Robert Augustus Smith
record = 22: 8-5-3
earnings = $127,165
race = Kentucky Derby (1934)
American Derby (1934)
Arlington Classic (1934)
Detroit Derby (1934)
awards= U.S. Champion 2-Year-old Colt (1933)
U.S. Champion 3-Year-old Colt (1934)
United States Horse of the Year (1934)
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1993)
Cavalcade Drive in Danville, Kentucky
updated= January 14, 2007

Cavalcade (1931-1940) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.

In the early 1930s, Bob Smith, a trainer with a history of spotting talent, had been hired by heiress Isabel Dodge Sloane to stock her newly-formed Brookmeade Stable. A descendant of the 1893 English Triple Crown champion, Isinglass, Cavalcade was purchased as a yearling for $1,200. That same year Bob Smith also bought two other bargain priced yearlings for Brookmeade Stable, paying $700 for Time Clock and $3,500 for High Quest.

In his two-year-old racing season, Cavalcade showed little of what was to come at age three. Although he won the Hyde Park Stakes, of his eleven starts in 1933 he earned only two wins in total with three second and three third place finishes. In a year when no horse dominated his age class, Cavalcade was named Champion 2-Year-old Colt. His 1934 campaign would be marked by his dominance of the future Hall of Fame colt, Discovery whom he first defeated in the Chesapeake Stakes while setting a new race record time.

=The 1934 U.S. Triple Crown Races=

Of their three very capable colts, for the Kentucky Derby Brookmeade Stable raced Cavalcade as well as Time Clock, who had won the Flamingo Stakes. Sent off as the bettor's heavy favorites, Cavalcade won the race by more than three lengths over Discovery with Time Clock a disappointing seventh. After Time Clock's poor showing, his handlers replaced him in the Preakness Stakes with the third stablemate, High Quest who had won April's Wood Memorial. High Quest won the Preakness, beating Cavalcade by a nose with Discovery in third place. Cavalcade skipped the longer Belmont Stakes but went on to win the American Derby and Arlington Classic, defeating Discovery in both, then set a new track record in winning the Detroit Derby. The colt ended the 1934 racing season with six wins and a second in his seven starts and was voted the Champion 3-Year-old Colt and the most prestigious award in racing, Horse of the Year.

At age four and five Cavalcade started twice each year without a win. He finished second once and unplaced in the other three. Retired to stud duty at Ms Sloane's Brookmeade Stud in Upperville, Virginia, Cavalcade died just four years later at age nine. Of his limited offspring, the most notable was the gelding Dinner Party who won 37 steeplechase races. Cavalcade was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1993.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/cavalcade Cavalcade's pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1934.html Cavalcade's 1934 Kentucky Derby]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=43 Cavalcade at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.tbcprojects.com/career.php?search=413 Cavalcade's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves]