Half Iced | |
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Sire | Hatchet Man |
Grandsire | The Axe |
Dam | Winter Memory |
Damsire | Olden Times |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 14 March 1979[1] |
Country | United States |
Colour | Brown |
Breeder | Mrs. Henry A. Gerry |
Owner | Bertram R. Firestone |
Trainer | Stanley M. Hough |
Record | 32: 7-4-5 |
Earnings | $639,608 (in North America) |
Major wins | |
Secretariat Stakes (1982) Knickerbocker Handicap (1982) Japan Cup (1982) Seneca Handicap (1983) |
Half Iced (14 March 1979 – 2001) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who raced on turf and was best known for winning the 1982 Japan Cup. After being beaten in his two starts as a juvenile in 1981 he was highly tried in the next two seasons racing sixteen times in 1982 and thirteen times in 1983. As a three-year-old he won three minor races before recording his first major victory in the Grade II Secretariat Stakes. He ended his season by beating a top-class international field in the Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse. In the following year he won the Grade III Seneca Handicap at Saratoga Race Course and ended his racing career by finishing a close fourth in his second Japan Cup. He was retired to stud in New Zealand and had some success as a breeding stallion. He died in 2001 at the age of twenty two.