Overdrawn (foaled 1939) was an American

Thoroughbred racehorse The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are c ...

best known for winning three straight editions of the Jamaica Handicap. For his first two Jamaica Handicap wins, Overdrawn was raced by his breeder

George D. Widener Jr. George Dunton Widener Jr. (March 11, 1889 - December 8, 1971) was an American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner; one of only five people ever designated "Exemplars of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Early lif ...

and trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Bert Mulholland. In late summer of 1942, the four-year-old gelded Overdrawn was sold to the Dearborn Stable of Detroit, owned by James Powers & Morton Donnelly. C. Hyde Smith was the Dearborn Stable's trainer but it would be Pete Battle who was Overdrawn's trainer of record for his third Jamaica Handicap win in 1943. In addition to his Jamaica Handicap success, Overdrawn would win that fall's

New Rochelle Handicap The New Rochelle Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run at a distance of seven furlongs on dirt in 1899 at Morris Park Racecourse in The Bronx. When that racetrack closed in 1904 the race was transferred to Belmont Park in Elmo ...

at the same track. While a horse winning three consecutive runnings of any race is a rare feat, in the case of the Jamaica Handicap that happened a second time when Peter Markey's horse Piet won the race in 1949, 1950 and 1951.

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1939 racehorse births American racehorses Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States Thoroughbred family 23-b Widener family {{Horse-stub