| Airmans Guide | |
|---|---|
| Sire | One Count |
| Grandsire | Count Fleet |
| Dam | Navigating |
| Damsire | Hard Tack |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1957 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | W. P. Little |
| Owner | W. P. Little Hugh A. Grant, Sr. |
| Trainer | Burton B. Williams |
| Record | 20: 13-2-2 |
| Earnings | $315,673 |
| Major wins | |
| Delaware Handicap (1961) Beldame Stakes (1961) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1960) Regret Stakes (1961) New Castle Stakes (1960) Suwannee River Handicap (1961) Churchill Downs Debutante Stakes (1959) Marguerite Stakes (1959) |
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| Awards | |
| American Champion Older Female Horse (1961) | |
| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
Airmans Guide (foaled in 1957 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. The granddaughter of Count Fleet won the Delaware Handicap and the Beldame Stakes. On May 20,1960, Airmans Guide won the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. In 1961, she was voted by the country's top sports writers as the American Champion Older Female Horse.[1]
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Airmans Guide was born in 1957 in Kentucky, where she was by bred by horseman W. P. Little. She was sold at the Keeneland spring sale for two year-olds in training for only $7,500 to her new owner, Hugh A. Grant, Sr. In her two year-old season, she rose to the top of her class quickly by winning the grade three Churchill Downs Debutante Stakes in Louisville, Kentucky, during the last week of June. Later that year, she won the 1-1/16 mile Marguerite Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.
Airmans Guide showed up big in her first two stakes races back as a three-year-old. She won the grade one Ashland Stakes at Keeneland in April over Tingle. She followed that up with a gritty third-place finish in the Kentucky Oaks, losing to Make Sail. She ran so well in those two races that her connections decided to enter her in the second jewel of America's defacto Filly Triple Crown, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. She did this over a steller field of nine stakes winners including Chalvedele Warlike. She completed the mile and a sixteenth at Pimlico Race Course in 1:46.20 under jockey Willie Harmatz.
Throughout her three year-old season, she performed admirably with strong, consistent runs. In June, she placed second in the grade one Acorn Stakes at one mile on the dirt at Belmont Park. Later that year, she won the New Castle Stakes at Delaware Park at nine furlongs against many older mares.
At age four, Airmans Guide continued to show strong runs in each of her races. In 1961, she won the grade one Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park under jockey Howard Grant in 2:02.4 for the 1 1/4 miles. She also won the prestigious grade one Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park in New York. After that race, her trainer Burt Williams lobbied for a division championship in the media. That year, she was voted American Champion Older Female Horse.
In January 1962, Airmans Guide was retired and sent to Claiborne Farm to breed.