Vander Pool
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| Vander Pool | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Campfire |
| Grandsire | Olambala |
| Dam | Bramble Rose |
| Damsire | Von Tromp |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1928 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay/Brown |
| Breeder | Claiborne Farm |
| Owner | 1) Tennessee Stable 2) William A. Moore |
| Trainer | Dave Robb McDaniel |
| Record | 32: 19-3-6 |
| Earnings | US$$52,095 |
| Major wins | |
| Aberdeen Stakes (1930) Bowie Kindergarten Stakes (1930) Miami Juvenile Stakes (1930) Whirl Stakes (1930) Mad Hatter Handicap (1930) Remsen Handicap (1930) Youthful Stakes (1930) St. James Purse (1931) Rialto Purse (1931) Greenfield Purse (1931) Arverne Handicap (1932) Interborough Handicap (1932) | |
Vander Pool (foaled 1928 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won all eleven of his starts at age two in 1930 and won his first four races in 1931, tying the twenty-three-year-old North American record for most consecutive wins without a loss set by Colin in 1907/1908.
Bred by Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, Vander Pool was out of the California-bred mare Bramble Rose and was sired by the 1916 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Campfire.[1] Vander Pool was purchased as a yearling for $2,600 by Mrs. Agnes Allen at the 1929 Saratoga Sales. She raced him under the nom de course, Tennessee Stable.[2]
Undefeated at two
Trained by D. R. "Puddin" McDaniel, nephew of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Henry McDaniel,[3] Vander Pool made his racing debut in January 1930 with a win in a condition race for two-year-olds at a Miami, Florida racetrack. [4] Among his eleven wins in his undefeated 1930 campaign, in April Vander Pool won the Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace Racetrack in which he beat Equipoise.[5] Injured in July, he did not race again until October 15, when he got his tenth win without a loss in the Mad Hatter Handicap at Jamaica Race Course.[6] Three days later, he closed out his racing year with a victory in the Remsen Handicap at the same Jamaica, New York, track.[7]
Vander Pool spent the winter of 1930–31 at Charles Becker's farm in what was then the City of Baltimore, Maryland countryside. At the end of February 1931, he was sent to Pimlico Race Course to begin preparations for a spring campaign that culminated with the May 1 Preakness Stakes and the May 16 Kentucky Derby.[8]