Halma (1892–1909) was an American

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racehorse who won the 1895 Kentucky Derby. He is best known for being the first Kentucky Derby winner to sire a Kentucky Derby winner.

Background

Halma was bred in

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by Eastin & Larabie, a racing and breeding partnership created in 1886 between

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banker and financier Samuel E. Larabie and Augustus Eastin, a wealthy

businessman. He was sired by

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, a three-time Leading sire in North America and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Grandsire Hindoo, was a Champion runner who also was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. Halma was out of the

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Julia L., a daughter of Champion and Hall of Famer,

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. He was purchased as a yearling by Byron McClelland, who trained his own racing stable.

Racing career

Halma got his first win under

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jockey Alonzo Clayton on August 26, 1894, at New York's Sheepshead Bay Race Track. At age three, with 15-year-old African American James "Soup" Perkins up, Halma won the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, then on May 3, 1895, only three days later, again ridden by Perkins, he won the last Kentucky Derby to be held at the race's original 1½ mile distance. On May 14, under Perkins (who would be America's leading rider that year with 192 wins), he won the

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shortly after which McClelland sold him to wealthy businessman

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for a reported $30,000. Two days after Fleischmann purchased Halma, the colt won the May 21, 1895

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. An injury kept him out of racing in the summer and fall of 1895, and in 1896 he went lame and was retired to

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Stud career

Halma stood at

in the United States where he notably sired

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(b. 1899), winner of the 1902 Kentucky Derby. Halma was the first Derby winner to sire a Derby winner. In June 1901 Charles Fleischmann sold him to American sportsman,

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who shipped him to his

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stud farm in

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. In France, Halma's best runner was

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(b. 1906), a top colt at age competing at two to four whose wins included the

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, Prix du President de la Republique, and Prix Lupin. Halma died in 1909 at age seventeen.

Pedigree

Sire line tree

*HalmaByerley Turk Line
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***Barnsdale **Smart Set **Acacia **

***Mirebeau ***Insight

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Halma (Horse) 1892 racehorse births 1909 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States Kentucky Derby winners Thoroughbred family 4-r Byerley Turk sire line