Pot O'Luck (1942) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by the renowned Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky. He was sired by Chance Play, the 1927 retrospective American Horse of the Year and 1935 Leading sire in North America. Out of the mare Potheen, his damsire was Wildair, winner of the 1920 Metropolitan Handicap.Pot O'Luck's pedigree and partial racing stats
1944 Trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Ben Jones, racing at age two Pot O'Luck notably won the Champagne Stakes at New York's Belmont ParkNew York Times - October 8, 1944 and the Pimlico Futurity at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.Palm Beach Post - November 19, 1944
1945 At three, Pot O'Luck won five of twenty-one starts and earned $149,220.International Museum of the Horse website - Calumet Farm: Five Decades of Champions He ran second to Hoop Jr. in the 1945 Kentucky DerbyThe Wilmington, Delaware Sunday Morning Star - June 10, 1945 but won a number of important races that year including the 11/16 mile Ben Ali Stakes at Keenland Race Course, the Arlington Classic Stakes, the Lawrence Realization StakesNew York Times - September 23, 1945 and the Governor Bowie Handicap,September 23, 1945 both at , as well as the Jockey Club Gold Cup at two miles.New York Times - September 28, 1945
1946 Pot O'Luck bowed a tendon In the spring of 1946 that resulted in a year when he did not win a major race. He lost three races in a row until winning the July 15 Scintillator Purse at Arlington Park and in October won the Hop Creek Purse at Garden State Park Racetrack.
1947 In February 1947, five-year-old Pot O'Luck won the Cocoanuts Purse at Hialeah Park Race Track and in April earned his second win of the Ben Ali Stakes at Keenland Race Course. On June 13 it was announced that he had been sold to bloodstock agent John H. Clark who raced him without success until selling him in the fall to a Virginia breeding syndicate.Milwaukee Journal - June 14, 1947 A few years later Pot O'Luck was sold to a breeding operation in France but overall he met with little success as a sire. His best runner was Pot Hunter, a multiple stakes winner in Canada.
Pedigree
Pot O'Luck is inbred 4D × 4D to the stallion Peter Pan, meaning that he appears twice fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.
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