One of the most inconsistent fillies to have won a filly Classic, Damaged Goods won only four of 19 starts during her sophomore season, and as it turned out, those four wins were the only ones of her career. At her best she showed good form, but her best emerged far too seldom. She did fairly well as a broodmare.
Race record
42 starts, 4 wins, 4 seconds, 8 thirds, US$27,775
1940:
Assessments
Ranked third among American 3-year-old fillies of 1940 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare, Damaged Goods was strongly made and hardy.
As a producer
Damaged Goods produced 11 named foals. All 11 started and 10 were winners. Her important foals are as follow:
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Damaged Goods was bred by Arthur Hancock, Sr., and was owned by E. B, Benjamin's Starmount Stable.
Pedigree notes
Damaged Goods is inbred 5x4 to 1899 Ascot Gold Cup winner Cyllene, a champion sire in both England and Argentina, and 5x5 to 1888 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes winner Ayrshire. She is a full sister to Forswear, dam of three-time steeplechase stakes winner Sea Legs (by Battleship).
Damaged Goods was produced from Perjury, a winning half sister to juvenile stakes winner Chouette (by Bubbling Over) and to Mad Passion (by Mad Hatter), dam of 1946 Everglades Handicap winner Alworth (by Rhodes Scholar) and stakes winner Jessie Gladys (by Pharamond II) and second dam of the classy handicap mare Marta and 1963 Santa Margarita Handicap winner Pixie Erin. Perjury is also a half sister to Elocution (by Jacopo), dam of 1948 Charles W. Bidwell Memorial Handicap winner Oration (by Pompey); to Gallant Lady (by Sir Gallahad III), second dam of 1957 Laurel Handicap winner Cedrus; and to Bright Climax (by Flares); second dam of 1965 Queens County Handicap winner Prairie Schooner.
Perjury and her siblings are out of Peroration (by 1916 Two Thousand Guineas winner Clarissimus), a mare imported to the United States by Arthur Hancock, Sr. Peroration, in turn, is out of Rhetoric (by Cyllene), a full sister to 1905 Derby Stakes winner Cicero.
Books and media
Damaged Goods is profiled in Chapter 9 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
Race record
42 starts, 4 wins, 4 seconds, 8 thirds, US$27,775
1940:
- Won Acorn Stakes (USA, 8FD, Belmont)
- Won Coaching Club American Oaks (USA, 11FD, Belmont)
Assessments
Ranked third among American 3-year-old fillies of 1940 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare, Damaged Goods was strongly made and hardy.
As a producer
Damaged Goods produced 11 named foals. All 11 started and 10 were winners. Her important foals are as follow:
- Case Goods (1951, by Case Ace) won the Astoria Stakes and two other stakes event as a juvenile. She is the second dam of Grade III winner Old Goat, 1969 Anoakia Stakes winner Sailors Mate and1968 Oceanport Handicap winner Quite an Accent. She is also the third dam of 1992 Premio San Isidro (ARG-I) winner Rinconazo, Grade II winners Highland Park and Perfect Moon and Grade III winner Dance Director.
- Royal Pawn (1958, by Royal Gem II) produced stakes winners Nantes (by Nasrullah) and Cocoroyale (by Canonero II). She is the second dam of 1979 Premio Republica de Venezuela (VEN-I) winner Tatuaje.
- Twice Shy (1959, by Double Eclipse) won the 1963 Whimsical Stakes in Canada. She is the dam of three-time Canadian champion Not Too Shy (by Nearctic; dam of multiple Canadian stakes winner Lucky Colonel S., by Jammed Lucky), nine-time Canadian stakes winner Twice Lucky (by Jammed Lucky), 1976 Belle Mahone Stakes winner Bed Shy (by Bye and Near) and 1977 Kingarvie Stakes winner Forty Bye Two (by Bye and Near). She is also the third dam of Canadian Grade III winners Heliotrope and The Fed.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Damaged Goods was bred by Arthur Hancock, Sr., and was owned by E. B, Benjamin's Starmount Stable.
Pedigree notes
Damaged Goods is inbred 5x4 to 1899 Ascot Gold Cup winner Cyllene, a champion sire in both England and Argentina, and 5x5 to 1888 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes winner Ayrshire. She is a full sister to Forswear, dam of three-time steeplechase stakes winner Sea Legs (by Battleship).
Damaged Goods was produced from Perjury, a winning half sister to juvenile stakes winner Chouette (by Bubbling Over) and to Mad Passion (by Mad Hatter), dam of 1946 Everglades Handicap winner Alworth (by Rhodes Scholar) and stakes winner Jessie Gladys (by Pharamond II) and second dam of the classy handicap mare Marta and 1963 Santa Margarita Handicap winner Pixie Erin. Perjury is also a half sister to Elocution (by Jacopo), dam of 1948 Charles W. Bidwell Memorial Handicap winner Oration (by Pompey); to Gallant Lady (by Sir Gallahad III), second dam of 1957 Laurel Handicap winner Cedrus; and to Bright Climax (by Flares); second dam of 1965 Queens County Handicap winner Prairie Schooner.
Perjury and her siblings are out of Peroration (by 1916 Two Thousand Guineas winner Clarissimus), a mare imported to the United States by Arthur Hancock, Sr. Peroration, in turn, is out of Rhetoric (by Cyllene), a full sister to 1905 Derby Stakes winner Cicero.
Books and media
Damaged Goods is profiled in Chapter 9 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
- Damaged Goods got her name because she was injured in a stable fire as a yearling. She carried the scars of that experience for the remainder of her life.