Gato Del Sol (February 23, 1979 – August 7, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was foaled at Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky, the son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Cougar II, and out of the mare Peacefully, whose grandsire was Bold Ruler, another Hall of Fame champion and an eight-time Leading sire in North America.
Gato Del Sol was owned and bred by Stone Farm proprietor Arthur B. Hancock III in partnership with one of his longtime clients, Manhattan real estate broker Leone J. Peters. The two men also bred Risen Star, winner of the 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
Trained by Eddie Gregson, Gato Del Sol made his debut at Hollywood Park in 1981 and lost his first two races. In his third start, at Del Mar Racetrack, he won for the first time. After a third-place finish in the Balboa Stakes, he won the Del Mar Futurity. In his three-year-old campaign, Gato del Sol was winless going into the Kentucky Derby but had been second in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Course.
Read more about Gato Del Sol: 1982 Kentucky Derby
Famous quotes containing the word sol:
“my Uncle Sol’s farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)