Typecast (foaled April 10, 1966) was an American

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noted for her ability to win races at both short and very long distances.

Background

Bred by Nuckols Bros. of

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, she was out of the mare Journalette and sired by Prince John, a son of the very important sire

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. Purchased and raced by Westerly Stud Farms of

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, Typecast was conditioned for racing by Tommy Doyle.

Racing career

A late developer, Typecast began to show contending form in 1971 at age five when she ran second in both the

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and

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s and won the

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. She was six years old when she had her

season in which she won at both short and very long distances. In 1972, she won important races at her home base in California including the

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, Milady and

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s, all run at distances between seven and eight and a half

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s. However, Typecast had stiff competition that year in California's filly ranks from the 1971 U.S. Champion 3-year-old filly

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, who beat her in the Santa Maria and

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s, plus from

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, who beat her in the 1972

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. With much talk by racing fans and the media as to who was the best filly, on June 17, 1972, a 1⅛ mile

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was held at

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. With a $250,000 winner-take-all purse at stake, 53,575 spectators watched Typecast and

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lose to Convenience and Jerry Lambert by a nose. Typecast then won over

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s in the 1½ mile

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and defeated colts again at two miles in the

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. Her handlers also sent her to

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where she took on the colts again, finishing second in the

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and winning the prestigious

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Honors

Typecast's 1972 performances earned her

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honors, but Westerly Stud Farms' owner Fletcher Jones did not live to see it. The forty-one-year-old co-founder of

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died on November 7, 1972, when the plane he was piloting crashed into a hillside near the farm in

Breeding record

Typecast, and all the other bloodstock at Westerly Stud Farm, was sold at an estate dispersal auction in early 1973. She served as a broodmare in

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from 1973 through 1980 before being shipped to a breeding farm in

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. Her first mating was to

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. Of the seven other foals that followed, her second mating in 1975 was the most successful, with the filly Pretty Cast earning 1980 Champion Older Mare honors in Japan.

References

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Video at YouTube of the June 17, 1972 Match Race between Typecast and Convenience at Hollywood Park Racetrack
1966 racehorse births Thoroughbred family 13-c Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States Eclipse Award winners