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Shepperton (horse)

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Dam
  
Chat Water

Foaled
  
1939

Colour
  
Bay

Species
  
Equus caballus

Earnings
  
35,585 CAD

Damsire
  
Chatterton

Country
  
Canada

Breeder
  
Fred H. Schelke

Sex
  
Stallion

Grandsire
  
Sun Briar

Shepperton (foaled 1939 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He was a son of Sun Craig, who was sired by Sun Briar, the 1917 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt who sired such outstanding runners as Firethorn, Pompey, and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sun Beau. Shepperton's dam was Chat Water, a daughter of Claiborne Farm's 1932 Leading sire in North America, Chatterton.

Shepperton was bred, owned, and conditioned for racing by Hall of Fame inductee Fred H. Schelke. He is best remembered for his back-to-back wins in the Canadian Championship Stakes and became part of the inaugural class of inductees following the formation of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. His profile there says that despite being a "confirmed cripple from birth," Shepperton was "the wonder horse" of his time.

He was not successful as a sire.

References

Shepperton (horse) Wikipedia