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Before Dawn (horse)

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Grandsire
  
Country
  
Owner
  
Species
  
Equus caballus

Sex
  
Damsire
  
Foaled
  
1979

Colour
  
Record
  
14: 9-2-1

Trainer
  
John M. Veitch

Earnings
  
432,855 USD

Breeder
  

Before Dawn (1979–2006) was an American Champion racehorse bred and raced by Lucille Markey's Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky.

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Racing career

Trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, John Veitch, in 1981 she was voted the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. During her two-year-old campaign, Before Dawn won five of her six starts against other fillies and finished second to her male counterpart in the Champagne Stakes. At age three in 1982, she won her first four starts before finishing third and second in her first Grade I competitions of the year.

Broodmare

Retired to broodmare duty, Before Dawn was sent to breeders in Ireland in 1990. She died in 2006 having produced three stakes-placed runners from eleven foals to race.

References

Before Dawn (horse) Wikipedia


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