Regret (horse)

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Regret
Regret is one of the "Ten"
Sire:	Broomstick
Dam:	Jersey Lightning
Damsire:	Hamburg
Sex:	Filly
Foaled:	1912
Country:	United States
Colour:	Chestnut
Breeder:	Harry Payne Whitney
Owner:	Harry Payne Whitney
Trainer:	James G. Rowe, Sr.
Record:	11: 9-1-10
Earnings:	$35,093
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Saratoga Special Stakes (1914) Sanford Stakes (1914) Hopeful Stakes 1914 Kentucky Derby (1915) Saranac Handicap (1915) Gazelle Handicap (1917)
Racing Awards
United States Horse of the Year (1915)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1957) #71 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Infobox last updated on: September 22, 2006.

Regret (1912 - April 11, 1934) was a famous American thoroughbred racehorse and the first of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby.

Born at Brookdale Farm in New Jersey, and fathered by the 1913-1915 leading sire and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Famer Broomstick, (son of Ben Brush, also inducted into the Hall of Fame), and out of Jersey Lightning who goes back to the great Longfellow through his Kentucky Derby winning son, Riley), Regret was bred by owner Harry Payne Whitney. Trained by James G. Rowe, Sr., her career began with a win in the Saratoga Special Stakes on the 8th of August, 1914, against an all-male field. She led the entire race and ran a near-record time. She won a further two races that year, the Stanford Memorial and Hopeful Stakes. The following year, campaigning as a three-year-old, she won the 1915 Kentucky Derby. For her performances that season, Regret earned the most prestigious honor in racing, voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.[1]

Regret was retired to the new Whitney farm in Lexington, Kentucky after the 1917 racing season. In this last season, she raced in the Brooklyn Handicap against the best of her generation: Old Rosebud, Roamer, Omar Khayyam (winner of the 1917 Kentucky Derby), Boots, Ormsdale and Chiclet. In the final strides, she was defeated by a nose by her stablemate, Borrow, giving away 5 pounds.

Ultimately a disappointment as a broodmare, she produced only one major stakes winner—Revenge—out of eleven foals.

She died in 1934, aged 22, and was buried at the Whitney farm in Lexington.

Regret was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, she was #71. (Roamer ranks 99th, Old Rosebud, 88th.)

[edit] Career record

Out of 11 starts in four seasons (1914-1917), Regret won nine, and placed second in one. The only race she was not placed in was the 1916 Saratoga Handicap. Throughout her career, she was never beaten by a female horse.

[edit] Of interest

In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park, Regret was voted the third greatest filly in American racing history. Gallorette was voted first.