# Maskette

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{{Short description|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Maskette
| image = 200px
| caption = Maskette in 1908.
| sire = [Disguise](/source/Disguise_(horse))
| grandsire = [Domino](/source/Domino_(horse))
| dam = Biturica
| damsire =  [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg_(horse))
| sex = [Filly](/source/Filly)
| foaled = 1906
| country = United States
| color = [Brown](/source/Brown_(color))
| breeder = [James R. Keene](/source/James_R._Keene)
| owner = James R. Keene
| trainer = [James G. Rowe Sr.](/source/James_G._Rowe_Sr.)
| record = 17: 12-3-0
| earnings =  $77,090<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pedigreequery.com/maskette|title = Maskette Horse Pedigree}}</ref>
| race =  [Futurity Stakes](/source/Belmont_Futurity_Stakes) (1908)<br />[Spinaway Stakes](/source/Spinaway_Stakes) (1908)<br />[Matron Stakes](/source/Matron_Stakes_(USA)) (1908)<br />[Alabama Stakes](/source/Alabama_Stakes) (1909)<br />[Gazelle Handicap](/source/Gazelle_Handicap) (1909)<br />[Ladies Handicap](/source/Ladies_Handicap) (1909)<br />[Mermaid Stakes](/source/Mermaid_Stakes) (1909)<br />[Pierrepont Handicap](/source/Pierrepont_Handicap) (1909)
| awards = [American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Two-Year-Old_Filly) (1908)<br />[American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Three-Year-Old_Filly) (1909)
| honors =  [United States Racing Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) (2001)<br />[Maskette Stakes](/source/Go_For_Wand_Handicap) (1954-1991)
| updated = April 18, 2020
}}
'''Maskette''' (1906&ndash;1930) was an American [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) [racehorse](/source/horse_racing) who never lost a race against other fillies.

==Background==
Bred by [James R. Keene](/source/James_R._Keene) at his [Castleton Farm](/source/Castleton_Lyons) near [Lexington, Kentucky](/source/Lexington%2C_Kentucky), Maskette was trained by future Hall of Fame inductee [James G. Rowe Sr.](/source/James_G._Rowe_Sr.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1900s/drf1908080901/drf1908080901_2_12|title=Maskette, The Newest Keene Wonder.: Daughter of Disguise and Biturica|publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1908-08-09|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref>

==Racing career==
Although she did not begin racing until late in the summer of 1908, the New York based two-year-old was nonetheless the top filly in the U.S. that year. Of her six starts, she finished second once and won the other five races, including setting a track record for the [Saratoga Race Course](/source/Saratoga_Race_Course) in winning the [Spinaway Stakes](/source/Spinaway_Stakes), a premier event of the racing season for juvenile fillies. The most important win of Maskette's racing career came in the 1908 [Futurity Stakes](/source/Belmont_Futurity_Stakes) at [Sheepshead Bay Race Track](/source/Sheepshead_Bay_Race_Track). She defeated both male and female competition in the Futurity which for decades was the richest and most prestigious race in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/ |title=Maskette Wins Great Futurity |work=[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times) |page=1 |date=1908-08-30 |access-date=2020-04-18 |archive-date=2020-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506002706/https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The leading filly again at age three, Maskette repeated with five wins and a second in six starts. Of her several major stakes race wins, she captured the Pierrepont Handicap against [colt](/source/Colt_(horse))s. At age four, she won two of five starts that included another track record, this time at [Aqueduct Racetrack](/source/Aqueduct_Racetrack).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050428045219/http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleindex/article.asp?id=5225 Blood Horse] </ref>

==Stud record==
Retired to broodmare duty at her owner's Castleton Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, after producing a filly in 1912 Maskette was sold to prominent American owner/breeder [William Kissam Vanderbilt](/source/William_Kissam_Vanderbilt), who shipped her to his [Haras du Quesnay](/source/Haras_du_Quesnay) breeding farm near [Deauville](/source/Deauville) in [Lower Normandy](/source/Lower_Normandy), [France](/source/France). Maskette produced four stakes winners before her death at age twenty-four in 1930.

==Honors==
In 1954, [Belmont Park](/source/Belmont_Park) in [Elmont, New York](/source/Elmont%2C_New_York) honored her memory with the [Maskette Stakes](/source/Go_For_Wand_Handicap), a race for fillies & mares 3-years-old & up. In 1992, the race was renamed for its ill-fated 1990 winner, [Go For Wand](/source/Go_For_Wand).
 
In 2001, Maskette was inducted into the United States' [National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame).<ref>http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=360 Maskette at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame</ref>

==Pedigree==
{{Pedigree
|name = Maskette, brown mare, 1908
|f = [Disguise](/source/Disguise_(horse))
|m = Biturica
|ff = [Domino](/source/Domino_(horse))
|fm = Bonnie Gal
|mf = [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg_(horse))
|mm = Berriedale
|fff = [Himyar](/source/Himyar_(horse))
|ffm = [Mannie Gray](/source/Mannie_Gray)
|fmf = [Galopin](/source/Galopin)
|fmm = Bonnie Doon
|mff = [Hanover](/source/Hanover_(horse))
|mfm = Lady Reel
|mmf = [Donovan](/source/Donovan_(horse))
|mmm = Caithness
|ffff = Alarm
|fffm = Hira
|ffmf = Enquirer
|ffmm = Lizzie G
|fmff = [Vedette](/source/Vedette_(horse))
|fmfm = [Flying Dutchess](/source/Flying_Dutchess_(horse))
|fmmf = Rapid Rhone
|fmmm = Queen Mary
|mfff = [Hindoo](/source/Hindoo_(horse))
|mffm = Bourbon Belle
|mfmf = Fellowcraft
|mfmm = '''Mannie Gray'''
|mmff = '''Galopin'''
|mmfm = Mowerina
|mmmf = [Bend Or](/source/Bend_Or)
|mmmm = Atalanta    (family: 8-h)
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

Category:1906 racehorse births
Category:1930 racehorse deaths
Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Category:Racehorses trained in the United States
Category:Thoroughbred family 8-h
Category:United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees

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