| Chance Shot | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Fair Play |
| Grandsire | Hastings |
| Dam | Quelle Chance |
| Damsire | Ethelbert |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1924 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | August Belmont, Jr. |
| Owner | Joseph E. Widener |
| Trainer | Pete Coyne |
| Record | 22:8-7-0 |
| Earnings | $142,277 |
| Major wins | |
| National Stallion Stakes (1926) Saratoga Special Stakes (1926) Withers Stakes (1927) Saratoga Handicap (1928) Merchants and Citizens Handicap (1928)
American Classic Race wins: | |
| Last updated on 2019-07-07 | |
Chance Shot (1924–1952) was an American-bred thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Bred by August Belmont, Jr. at his nursery stud in Lexington, Kentucky, he was sired by the great Fair Play, which made him a half brother to Man o' War, out of the mare Quelle Chance who was bred at Belmont's Haras de Villers stud farm in Normandy, France.[1] He was a full brother to stakes winner and 2-time leading sire Chance Play.
Trained by Pete Coyne and ridden by Earl Sande, Chance Shot was a stakes winner at 2, 3, and 4. As a two-year-old in 1926 he won the Saratoga Special Stakes and the National Stallion Stakes.[2][3] At age three Chance Shot followed up an impressive win in the 1927 Withers Stakes with a victory in the Belmont Stakes.[4][5]