Personality (1967–1990) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted 1970 Horse of the Year honors.
| Personality | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Hail To Reason |
| Grandsire | Turn-To |
| Dam | Affectionately |
| Damsire | Swaps |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1967 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Bieber-Jacobs Stable |
| Owner | Ethel D. Jacobs |
| Trainer | John W. Jacobs |
| Record | 25: 8-4-2 |
| Earnings | US$462,603 |
| Major wins | |
| Wood Memorial Stakes (1970) Jersey Derby (1970) Jim Dandy Stakes (1970) Woodward Stakes (1970) American Triple Crown wins: Preakness Stakes (1970) | |
| Awards | |
| American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse (1970) TRA American Horse of the Year (1970) | |
Background
editPersonality was bred by the partnership of Isidor Bieber and owner/trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Sired by Hail To Reason, the 1960 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Personality was out of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Affectionately, a daughter of another Hall of Fame inductee, Swaps.
Personality was raced in the salmon pink-and-green silks of Hirsch Jacobs' wife, Ethel. However, the Hall of Fame trainer died on February 23, 1970, and did not see his three-year-old colt's success that year. Son John W. Jacobs took over the race conditioning of Personality and three-year-old stablemate High Echelon.[1]
Racing career
editGoing into the 1970 U.S. Triple Crown series, Personality was made the second choice by bettors for the Kentucky Derby after winning an allowance race and then the important Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack. Ridden by Eddie Belmonte, Personality finished eighth to Dust Commander in the Derby but came back to win the Preakness Stakes from Corn Off The Cob and High Echelon.[2] Two weeks later, he won the Jersey Derby, a race at Monmouth Park which at the time was used as a warm-up for the final leg of the Triple Crown. However, Personality developed a fever, and his handlers chose not to run him in the Belmont Stakes. Stablemate High Echelon did run and won.
Personality returned to racing on July 25, 1970, when he ran second in a field of older horses at Aqueduct Racetrack. On August 14, he won the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and finished second in the September 21 Stymie Handicap at Belmont Park. On October 4, 1970, Personality beat older horses in the Woodward Stakes to clinch Horse of the Year honors from the Thoroughbred Racing Association.[3] In the rival Daily Racing Form poll, he finished runner-up to Fort Marcy[4]
Personality's best results in top races at age four were a second in the Excelsior Handicap and a third in the Paumonok Handicap.
Stud record
editRetired to stud duty, Personality met with very limited success as a sire and in 1979 was sold to a breeding operation in Japan, where he died on November 20, 1990, at age twenty-three.
Breeding
edit| Sire Hail to Reason brown 1958 |
Turn-To
bay 1951 |
Royal Charger | Nearco |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Princess | |||
| Source Sucree | Admiral Drake | ||
| Lavendula | |||
| Nothirdchance
bay 1948 |
Blue Swords | Blue Larkspur | |
| Flaming Swords | |||
| Galla Colors | Sir Gallahad | ||
| Rouge Et Noir | |||
| Dam Affectionately drk.brn. 1960 |
Swaps
ch. 1952 |
Khaled | Hyperion |
| Eclair | |||
| Iron Reward | Beau Pere | ||
| Iron Maiden | |||
| Searching
bay 1952 |
War Admiral | Man o' War | |
| Brushup | |||
| Big Hurry | Black Toney | ||
| La Troienne |
References
edit- ^ sportsillustrated.cnn.com April 27, 1970 Sports Illustrated article on the Jacobs racing family and their colt, Personality
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lH0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-bUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1007,6522692&dq=preakness+personality&hl=en [dead link]
- ^ "How Horse of the Year voters play the game | Daily Racing Form". Drf.com. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
- ^ "Fort Marcy Top Horse". Ottawa Citizen. 1970-12-01. Retrieved 2012-02-27.