Halma (horse)

Halma was bred in Kentucky by Eastin & Larabie, a racing and breeding partnership created in 1886 between Montana banker and financier Samuel E. Larabie and Augustus Eastin, a wealthy Kentucky businessman.[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SG9FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=900,3629968&dq=willow-run-stock-farm+larabie&hl=en Three Forks News - August 8, 1922] He was sired by Hanover, 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 mare Julia L., a daughter of Champion and Hall of Famer, Longfellow. He was purchased as a yearling by Byron McClelland, who trained his own racing stable.

Halma got his first win under African American 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 Clark Handicap shortly after which McClelland sold him to wealthy businessman Charles Fleischmann for a reported $30,000. Two days after Fleischmann purchased Halma, the colt won the May 21, 1895 Latonia Derby.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1895/05/24/archives/halmas-latonia-derby-hanovers-son-won-the-race-easily-in-fast-time.html |title=HALMA'S LATONIA DERBY. - Hanover's Son Won the Race Easily in Fast Time |work=New York Times |date=2012-06-10 |access-date=2013-01-04}} An injury kept him out of racing in the summer and fall of 1895, and in 1896 he went lame and was retired to stud.

Halma stood at stud in the United States where he notably sired Alan-a-Dale (b. 1899), winner of the 1902 Kentucky Derby. Halma was the first Derby winner to sire a Derby winner.{{cite news |last1=Rees |first1=Jennie |title=Kentucky Derby countdown - Halma, 1895 |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/triple/derby/2015/04/11/countdown-kentucky-derby-halma/25594293/ |access-date=13 May 2022 |publisher=Courier-Journal |date=11 Apr 2015 |location=Louisville, Kentucky}} In June 1901 Charles Fleischmann sold him to American sportsman, William Kissam Vanderbilt who shipped him to his Haras du Quesnay stud farm in France.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/07/11/119078278.pdf |title=FIRST WHIP'S HANDICAP - McLaughlin's Horse Won Cleverly in the Last Furlong |work=New York Times |access-date=2013-01-04}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/06/13/archives/halma-sold-to-europe-polish-breeder-paid-30000-for-fleischmanns.html |title=HALMA SOLD TO EUROPE. - Polish Breeder Paid $30,000 for Fleischmann's Famous Horse |work=New York Times |date=2012-06-10 |access-date=2013-01-04}}

In France, Halma's best runner was Oversight (b. 1906), a top colt at age competing at two to four whose wins included the Prix de la Salamandre, Prix du President de la Republique, and Prix Lupin.

Halma died in 1909 at age seventeen.

{{tree list}}

• Halma[http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricSires/SireLineschts/SireLineBT.html Byerley Turk Line][http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Sirelines/Selim.htm Selim Sire Line][http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/halma.html American Classic Pedigree: Halma]
• Alan-a-Dale[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/alan-a-dale.html American Classic Pedigree: Alan-A-Dale]
• Barnsdale
• Smart Set
• Acacia
• Oversight
• Mirebeau
• Insight

{{tree list/end}}

{{Pedigree

|name = Halma{{cite web|url=http://www.equineline.com/Free-5X-Pedigree.cfm?page_state=ORDER_AND_CONFIRM&reference_number=581879®istry=T&horse_name=Halma&dam_name=Julia%20L.&foaling_year=1892&nicking_stats_indicator=Y |title=Halma pedigree |publisher=equineline.com |date=2012-05-08 |access-date=2013-01-04}}

|f = Hanover
1884

|m =Julia L.
1885

|ff = Hindoo
1878

|fm = Bourbon Belle
1869

|mf = Longfellow
1867

|mm = Christine
1871

|fff = Virgil

|ffm = Florence

|fmf = Bonnie Scotland

|fmm = Ella D.

|mff = Leamington

|mfm = Nantura

|mmf = Australian

|mmm = La Grande Duchesse

|ffff = Vandal*

|fffm = Hymenia

|ffmf = Lexington*

|ffmm = Weatherwitch

|fmff = Iago

|fmfm = Queen Mary

|fmmf = Vandal*

|fmmm = Falcon

|mfff = Faugh-a-Ballagh

|mffm = Pantaloon Mare

|mfmf = Counterplot

|mfmm = Quiz

|mmff = West Australian

|mmfm = Emilia

|mmmf = Lexington*

|mmmm = Ann Innis

|}}

* Halma is inbred 4S x 4S to the stallion Vandal, meaning that he appears fourth generation twice on the sire side of his pedigree.

* Halma is inbred 4S x 4D to the stallion Lexington, meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

{{reflist}}

{{Kentucky Derby Winners}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Halma (Horse)}}

Category:1892 racehorse births

Category:1909 racehorse deaths

Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky

Category:Racehorses trained in the United States

Category:Kentucky Derby winners

Category:Thoroughbred family 4-r

Category:Byerley Turk sire line