Faireno (foaled 1929 in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred

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best known for winning the

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in 1932.

Background

Faireno was bred and raced by William Woodward's Belair Stud. He was sired by Chatterton, a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee

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who was also the sire of Man o' War. Faireno's race conditioning was the responsibility of Belair Stud's future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons and his assistant,

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Racing career

Raced at age two, among Faireno's wins were the

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in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Nursery Handicap at

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, and the Junior Champion Stakes at

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. At age three in 1932, after a poor performance in the Wood Memorial Stakes, Faireno did not run in the

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. Although he was shipped to Pimlico Race Course for the Preakness Stakes, he was withdrawn a few days before the race and sent back to his base in New York. In late May, Faireno ran second in the Campfire Purse at Belmont Park then on June 4 lead virtually all the way to win the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the

. Faireno went on to win the Shevlin Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in June, the Dwyer Stakes on July 2, was eight in the Arlington Classic, and then won the Hawthorne Handicap on August 6 before running second to Plucky Play in the August 27th Hawthorne Gold Cup. On September 17, 1932 he came back with a decisive win in the Lawrence Realization Stakes but came out of the race with a tendon injury that kept him out of racing for the remainder of the year and all of 1933. Despite his shortened 1932 campaign, Faireno still retrospectively shared American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse honors with

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. On April 22, 1934, Faireno returned in the

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. Racing for the first time in nearly a year and a half, he was in contention for most of the race but tired in the stretch and finished fourth. However, he regained his old form and went on to win the 1934 Empire City Handicap, defeated

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to win the

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, won the

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at Saratoga Race Course, and October's Rochambeau Handicap at Narragansett Park. Faireno raced at age six in 1935 but with limited success.

Stud record

Faireno was retired to stud but proved to be sterile.

References

1932 Belmont Stakes charts
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