Alsab

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Alsab
Sire Good Goods
Grandsire Neddie
Dam Winds Chant
Damsire Wildair
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1939
Country United States Flag of the United States
Colour Bay
Breeder Tom Piatt
Owner Albert Sabath
Trainer Sarge Swenke
Record 51: 25-11-5
Earnings $350,015
Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours
Major Racing Wins
Washington Park Futurity (1941)
Champagne Stakes (1941)
American Derby (1942)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1942)
New York Handicap (1942)
Withers Stakes (1942)

American Classic Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (1942)

Racing Awards
U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1941)
U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1976)
#65 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Infobox last updated on: April 28, 2007.

Alsab (1939-1963) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse.

Alsab was voted the 1941 U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and in a season that jockey Basil James rode him to a win in the Preakness Stakes and second-place in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, the 1942 U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt.

In 1942, Also defeated the 1941 U.S. Triple Crown Champion Whirlaway in a match race at Narragansett Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Alsab was voted #65. In 1976, he was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.


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