One of the more undistinguished winners of the Kentucky Oaks, Ari's Mona was hardy but not particularly classy. Her broodmare career was only a modest improvement, although in fairness to her, she was hampered as a producer both by a short production career and by being put to indifferent sires for all but her first (and most successful) mating.
Race record
65 starts, 10 wins, 10 seconds, 6 thirds, US$56,390
1949:
1950:
As an individual
A black, Ari's Mona was a speedy mare who preferred running on or near the lead and just lasted to win the Oaks after being allowed to set her own pace throughout.
As a producer
Ari's Mona produced four foals, all of which started and won. The best of them was the 1955 gelding Little Fitz (by Crafty Admiral), winner of the 1960 Michigan Mile and One-Sixteenth Handicap and five other stakes races.
Connections
Ari's Mona was bred, owned and trained by John. C. Hauer, who bred or co-bred (with his wife) all four of the mare's foals. William Boland was her jockey for her Kentucky Oaks score.
Pedigree notes
Ari's Mona is outcrossed through five generations. A daughter of the useful Midwestern sprinter Kings Blue (by Blue Larkspur), she was the only foal of any significance produced from Arianna, one of only two winners from six foals produced by Applaud. Applaud, whose sire Cherokee (by Sweep) was a juvenile stakes winner, was in turn produced from Applause (by Royal Flush III), another generally undistinguished mare but a half sister to 1917 Spinaway Stakes winner Olive Wood (by The Manager).
Books and media
Ari's Mona is profiled in Chapter 8 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Last updated: December 22, 2021
Race record
65 starts, 10 wins, 10 seconds, 6 thirds, US$56,390
1949:
- 2nd Hialeah Juvenile Stakes (USA, 3FD, Hialeah)
1950:
- Won Kentucky Oaks (USA, 8.5FD, Churchill Downs; new track record 1:43-2/5)
- 2nd Jasmine Stakes (USA, 6FD, Hialeah)
As an individual
A black, Ari's Mona was a speedy mare who preferred running on or near the lead and just lasted to win the Oaks after being allowed to set her own pace throughout.
As a producer
Ari's Mona produced four foals, all of which started and won. The best of them was the 1955 gelding Little Fitz (by Crafty Admiral), winner of the 1960 Michigan Mile and One-Sixteenth Handicap and five other stakes races.
Connections
Ari's Mona was bred, owned and trained by John. C. Hauer, who bred or co-bred (with his wife) all four of the mare's foals. William Boland was her jockey for her Kentucky Oaks score.
Pedigree notes
Ari's Mona is outcrossed through five generations. A daughter of the useful Midwestern sprinter Kings Blue (by Blue Larkspur), she was the only foal of any significance produced from Arianna, one of only two winners from six foals produced by Applaud. Applaud, whose sire Cherokee (by Sweep) was a juvenile stakes winner, was in turn produced from Applause (by Royal Flush III), another generally undistinguished mare but a half sister to 1917 Spinaway Stakes winner Olive Wood (by The Manager).
Books and media
Ari's Mona is profiled in Chapter 8 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Last updated: December 22, 2021