As the Holiday season is here, what a better way to spread the spirit of Christmas than a list of Race horses with the Christmas Spirit in their name. When naming a race horse there is a long list of stipulations that must be thoroughly covered. Check out the Full Page HERE. With the season of giving why not display a rundown of the horses with those unique names just for the Holiday time. Of course the most common names would be Santa Claus and all of his reindeer have been used as horse names in the past. No other breeder has used Holiday names like Cynthia Phipps did with her horses. Yes, she is the daughter of the racing icon Ogden Phipps and the rest of her family is known across the racing world.
Christmas Past
Cynthia's most prized horse for the season was Christmas Past, champion 3-year-old filly of 1982, won that year's Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I), Ruffian Handicap (gr. I), and three other graded stakes. At 4, she beat males in winning the Gulfstream Park Handicap (gr. I). Ironically none of her 15 starts would come in December.
Christmas Gift
Another of Phipps' bred horses was Christmas Gift out of Christmas Bonus. She was purchased by Edward P. Evans for $230,000 as a yearling at the 1993 Keeneland September sale. Evans' had plenty of fun with this "gift," winning a pair of Grade 3 stakes. She would finish her career with 22 starts and 7 wins, with earnings over $380,000.
Christmas Kid
One of Edward P. Evans greatest runners would be Christmas Kid out of Lemon Drop Kid. She would win the Gulfstream Park Davona Sale Stakes Grade 3 and Keenelands Ashland Stakes Grade 1 in 2007.
Father Christmas
Aidan O'brien trained son of Christmas Kid and Bernardini, Father Christmas. He was lightly raced and only made 5 starts overseas, and did run in the Ascot.
Frosty The Snowman
Frosty the Snowman, out of Frosty Skater, made 13 of his 22 starts in the Sunshine State, and was a two-time graded stakes winner in 1989, taking Woodbine's King Edward Gold Cup Handicap Grad 3 and Arlington Park's Swoon Son's Stakes Grade 3.
New Year's Day
The Gary and Mary West owned New Years Day, winner of the 2013 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) in a brief racing career. The son of Street Cry stands at John Sikura’s Hill 'n' Dale Farms near Lexington.
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