# Sailor II

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

{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Sailor
| image = 
| caption = 
| sire = [Eight Thirty](/source/Eight_Thirty)
| grandsire = [Pilate](/source/Pilate)
| dam = Flota
| damsire = [Jack High](/source/Jack_High)
| sex = [Stallion](/source/Stallion_(horse))
| foaled = 1952
| country =  United States
| colour = [Chestnut](/source/Chestnut_(coat))
| breeder = [Brookmeade Stable](/source/Brookmeade_Stable)
| owner = [Isabel Dodge Sloane](/source/Isabel_Dodge_Sloane)
| trainer = [Preston M. Burch](/source/Preston_M._Burch)
| record = 21: 12-3-1 
| earnings = $321,075
| race = [Pimlico Special](/source/Pimlico_Special) (1955)<br>[Roamer Handicap](/source/Roamer_Handicap) (1955)<br>[Toboggan Handicap](/source/Toboggan_Handicap) (1955)<br>[Fall Highweight Handicap](/source/Fall_Highweight_Handicap) (1955)<br>[Gulfstream Park Handicap](/source/Gulfstream_Park_Handicap) (1956)<br>[John B. Campbell Handicap](/source/John_B._Campbell_Handicap) (1956)
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}}
'''Sailor''' (foaled 1952 in [Kentucky](/source/Kentucky)) was an American [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [racehorse](/source/horse_racing). Bred and raced by heiress [Isabel Dodge Sloane's](/source/Isabel_Dodge_Sloane) [Brookmeade Stable](/source/Brookmeade_Stable), he was out of the Brookmeade mare Flota and sired by [U.S. Racing Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) inductee [Eight Thirty](/source/Eight_Thirty).

Sailor was conditioned for racing by Hall of Fame trainer [Preston Burch](/source/Preston_M._Burch). As a three-year-old in 1955, the colt did not run in any of the [U.S. Triple Crown](/source/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) races. However, under regular rider [Hedley Woodhouse](/source/Hedley_Woodhouse) he won four major races that year, including the prestigious [Pimlico Special](/source/Pimlico_Special) at [Pimlico Race Course](/source/Pimlico_Race_Course) in [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland). At age four, he began the year competing in [Florida](/source/Florida), where he won the [Gulfstream Park Handicap](/source/Gulfstream_Park_Handicap), then back at Pimlico Race Course he captured the [John B. Campbell Handicap](/source/John_B._Campbell_Handicap), at the time a race of national importance.

==As a sire==
Retired to [stud](/source/stud_(animal)) duty at [Darby Dan Farm](/source/Darby_Dan_Farm) in [Lexington, Kentucky](/source/Lexington%2C_Kentucky), Sailor sired a number of stakes winners, notably the outstanding Hall of Fame filly [Bowl of Flowers](/source/Bowl_of_Flowers), [Travers Stakes](/source/Travers_Stakes) winner [Crewman](/source/Crewman_(horse)), and 1964 [American Champion Sprint Horse](/source/American_Champion_Sprint_Horse) [Ahoy](/source/Ahoy_(horse)).

==References==
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/sailor Sailor's pedigree and partial racing stats]

Category:1952 racehorse births
Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Category:Racehorses trained in the United States
Category:Thoroughbred family 22-b

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