BackTrack: Gallorette Shines at Aqueduct

Gallorette, if she needed any friends after her splendid races at New York tracks when she was 3 and 4, added some more followers in the Queens County Handicap.

This was the leading race on June 2, Aqueduct Racetrack's opening day. It brought out Stymie, which had been unplaced in the Suburban on Decoration Day; Coincidence, winner of the Excelsior, and others.

Coincidence and jockey Ted Atkinson had won the Excelsior by running boldly to the fore, making it stick. If they had a similar plan for the Queens County they reckoned without Gallorette. She lay close by them to the far turn, put them away with a quick burst of speed, the took over the lead.

Then Stymie came racing up with his usual withering speed. But this time it faded—instead of withering the opposition—and the chestnut horse hung at the wire. Gallorette, which looked as if she might be beaten when Stymie got his head in front, summoned all her strength and was inching away at the finish, victress by a neck.

The third horse was Mangoneo, an Argentine import making his first stakes start. He got in with 104 pounds, 15 less than Gallorette and 24 under Stymie, made a blazing run in the stretch and just got beat for it all.

Stakes story

Gallorette (*Challenger 2nd—Gallette, by *Sir Gallahad) was foaled Feb. 7, 1942, at W.L. Brann's Glade Valley Farm, Glyndon, Md. Through an arrangement between Mr. Brann, owner of *Challenger 2nd, and Preston M. Burch, the men alternate in the ownership of Gallette's foals. In 1942 it was Mr. Brann's turn. Mr. Burch does the training.

At 2, Gallorette was second in the Maryland Futurity, third in the Selima Stakes to Busher and Ace Card. At 3 she won the Acorn Stakes (beating Monsoon, Recce), Pimlico Oaks (beating Recce, Be Faithful), Delaware Oaks (beating Elpis, Monsoon), the Empire City Stakes (beating Pavot, Post Graduate). She was second in the first division of the Wood Memorial, second in the Dwyer Stakes.

Last year she won the Metropolitan, Brooklyn, Bay Shore Stakes, the first division of the Beldame Handicap. In the Metropolitan she beat Sirde and First Fiddle. In the Brooklyn she scored over Stymie and Burning Dream; in the Bay Shore she defeated King Dorsett and Polynesian. In her division of the Beldame, she won over War Date and Kay Gibson. Her seconds were in the Sussex, Butler, and Edgemere Handicaps, the Wilson Stakes. She was third in the Massachusetts Handicap.

Prior to the Queens County Handicap, her first stakes win and first victory of the year, she had been fifth in the Excelsior Handicap, won by Coincidence, and third in the Metropolitan, won by Stymie. Her Queens County win took her to within $54,850 of Busher, confirmed her as the second leading money-winning mare of the American Turf. She needed no confirmation, however, already having passed Top Flight on the roll.