Chief's Crown

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Chief's Crown
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Sire:	Danzig
Grandsire:	Northern Dancer
Dam:	Six Crowns
Damsire:	Secretariat
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1982
Country:	USA
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	Carl Rosen
Owner:	Star Crown Stable & Three Chimneys Farm
Trainer:	Roger Laurin
Record:	21: 12-3-3
Earnings:	$2,191,168
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Hopeful Stakes (1984) Cowdin Stakes (1984) Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1984) Swale Stakes (1985) Blue Grass Stakes (1985) Flamingo Stakes (1985) Travers Stakes (1985) Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap (1985)
Racing Awards
United States Champion 2 yr-old Colt
Infobox last updated on: November 29, 2006.

Chief's Crown (1982 - April 29, 1997) was an American-bred Thoroughbred race horse who won the 1984 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse.

The son of leading sire Danzig, Chief's Crown was by a daughter of Secretariat, whose own dam was the 1974 U.S. Filly Triple Crown winner Chris Evert. Owned by the Star Crown Stable of the family of the late Carl Rosen who had owned Chris Evert, they syndicated a half-interest in Chief's Crown to Three Chimneys Farm prior to his Breeders' Cup victory plus another quarter-interest to Claiborne Farm on his retirement.

Chief's Crown is one of only three horses in history to lose all three U.S. Triple Crown races while being the betting favorite for all three races. He finished 3rd to Spend A Buck in the Kentucky Derby, then in the Preakness Stakes set a record for the fastest first mile but finished a head behind Tank's Prospect who won in a record time that in 2006 still has not been beaten. In the Belmont Stakes, Chief's Crown finished 3rd to Creme Fraiche. He came back later that year to win the Travers Stakes and the Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap.

At the end of the 1985 racing season, Chief's Crown was retired to stand at stud at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky where he died in 1997. Among his progeny was the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame colt, Chief Bearhart. He is also the grandsire of Sinndar, who in 2000 became the only horse to ever win the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the same year.