Fair Play (horse)

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Fair Play
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Sire:	Hastings
Dam:	Fairy Gold
Damsire:	Bend Or
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1905
Country:	USA
Colour:	Chestnut
Breeder:	August Belmont, Jr.
Owner:	August Belmont, Jr.
Trainer:	Andrew J. Joyner
Record:	32: 10-11-3
Earnings:	$86,950
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Flash Stakes (1907) Lawrence Realization Stakes (1908) Jerome Handicap (1908) Brooklyn Derby (1908)
Racing Awards
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1956)
Honours
U.S. leading sire: 1920, 1924, 1927 U.S. leading broodmare sire: 1931, 1934, 1938 Life-size statue at Elmendorf Farm
Infobox last updated on: October 4, 2006.

Fair Play (1905-1929) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so as a sire.

His grandsire was Spendthrift, whose grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion, West Australian.

While successful on the track until an injury cut short his racing career, Fair Play gained his most fame as a sire.

Among his most famous progency are:

• Display - 1926 Preakness Stakes winner and sire of Discovery
• Man O' War - chosen #1 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
• Chance Play - 1927 United States Horse of the Year
• Fairmount - U.S. Hall of Fame steeplechase champion

Following the death of owner August Belmont, Jr. in 1924, Fair Play was sold to Joseph E. Widener, proprietor of Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky where he remained until his death in December of 1929. Widener, a dedicated horseman, buried Fair Play in the Elmendorf Farm cemetery and erected a nearly life-size bronze statue at the head of his grave.

[edit] References

• Fair Play's pedigree and stats
• Fairl Play at the United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
• Fair Play at the Unofficial Thoroughbred Hall of Fame