Dame Fritchie (USA)
May 3, 1959 – c. 1981
Count of Honor (USA) x So Proudly (USA), by Bull Dog (FR)
Family 9-f
May 3, 1959 – c. 1981
Count of Honor (USA) x So Proudly (USA), by Bull Dog (FR)
Family 9-f
By far the most important foal sired by the stakes-winning Count Fleet horse Count of Honor, the closely inbred Dame Fritchie was not much of a race mare. As a broodmare she was something else again, producing four stakes winners as well as a number of daughters who achieved some note in the paddocks.
Race record
37 starts, 3 wins, 3 seconds, 5 thirds, US$14,095
As an individual
A chestnut mare; no other information available.
As a producer
Designated as a Reine-de-Course by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker, Dame Fritchie produced 13 named foals, of which 11 started and 10 won. Her important foals are as follow:
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Dame Fritchie was bred by Dr. Robert C. Austin. Dr. Austin died after the birth of Rest Your Case in 1969, and Dame Fritchie's next three foals were bred by his estate and by his widow. The mare then passed to the ownership of Harry Mangurian, who bred three more foals from her. Her last owner was George Zimmerman, who bred her last two named foals.
Pedigree notes
Dame Fritchie is inbred 3x2 to 1943 American champion sire Bull Dog (also a three-time American champion broodmare sire) and 4x4 to the immortal Man o' War, the American champion sire of 1926. She is a half sister to multiple stakes winner Our Emblem (by Revoked) and Puerto Rican stakes winner Oregon City (by Traffic Judge). She is also a half sister to Her Ladyship (by Alibhai), dam of stakes winner Brook Judge (by Count of Honor) and third dam of Grade 2 winner Lotta Honey. In addition, she is a half sister to Brook Miss (by Roman Line), dam of multiple restricted stakes winner Wendover Way (by Brent's Prince), and to Be Proud (by Tamao), third dam of 2004 Venezuelan champion 2-year-old filly Dancing Along.
Dame Fritchie is out of the winning Bull Dog mare So Proudly, whose dam At Top is a stakes-winning daughter of 1925 American champion 3-year-old male American Flag. At Top, in turn, is out of Lover's Lane II (by Yankee), a daughter of the notable foundation mare One I Love (by Minting).
Fun facts
Last updated: September 7, 2023
Race record
37 starts, 3 wins, 3 seconds, 5 thirds, US$14,095
As an individual
A chestnut mare; no other information available.
As a producer
Designated as a Reine-de-Course by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker, Dame Fritchie produced 13 named foals, of which 11 started and 10 won. Her important foals are as follow:
- Frederick Street (1965, by Traffic Judge) won 10 stakes races including the 1969 Susquehanna Handicap. She is the second dam of French Group 3 winner Savannah's Honor and the third dam of Irish Group 3 winner Nick's Nikita.
- Noble Gesture (1966, by Roman Line) won three stakes races as a juvenile. She is the second dam of Grade 3 winner Cybele and the third dam of multiple Grade/Group 3 winner Bauhauser
- Hopes Ahead (1968, by Traffic Judge) won two of her 17 starts. She is the dam of multiple Grade 1 winner and 1976 Kentucky Oaks (USA-G2) winner Optimistic Gal (by Sir Ivor) and is the third dam of Grade 2 winner Feasibility Study.
- Rest Your Case (1969, by Traffic Judge; a gelding) won the 1971 Hopeful Stakes.
- Sunday Purchase (1970, by T. V. Lark) won one of her 16 starts. She is the dam of 1983 American champion older male Bates Motel (by Sir Ivor), 1986 San Antonio Handicap (USA-G1) winner Hatim (by Exclusive Native), 1979 Horris Hill Stakes (ENG-G3) winner Super Asset (by Sir Ivor), and stakes winner Emmaline (by Affirmed). Sunday Purchase is also the second dam of English Group 3 winner Perfect Sunday and the third dam of Grade 2 winner Striking Dancer and Italian Group 2 winner Raymond Tusk.
- She's Sofine (1973, by Bold Hour) won Thistledown's Matriarch Stakes as a 3-year-old.
- Charming Story (1974, by Hail to Reason) placed in two Grade 1 races. She is the second dam of 2001 Metropolitan Handicap (USA-G1) winner Exciting Story and Grade 3 winner Cut the Charm.
- March On He Said (1979, by Stop the Music) was unraced but is the dam of 1991 Miller High Life Cradle Stakes (USA-G3) winner Wolf Brigade (by Wolf Power).
- Dame Ivor (1981, by Sir Ivor) never raced but is the dam of listed stakes winners Saratoga Dame (by Saratoga Six), Saratoga Dandy (by Saratoga Six), and (in Australia) Club Liquid (by Fasliyev). She is also the second dam of Grade 2 winner Dollar Bill.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Dame Fritchie was bred by Dr. Robert C. Austin. Dr. Austin died after the birth of Rest Your Case in 1969, and Dame Fritchie's next three foals were bred by his estate and by his widow. The mare then passed to the ownership of Harry Mangurian, who bred three more foals from her. Her last owner was George Zimmerman, who bred her last two named foals.
Pedigree notes
Dame Fritchie is inbred 3x2 to 1943 American champion sire Bull Dog (also a three-time American champion broodmare sire) and 4x4 to the immortal Man o' War, the American champion sire of 1926. She is a half sister to multiple stakes winner Our Emblem (by Revoked) and Puerto Rican stakes winner Oregon City (by Traffic Judge). She is also a half sister to Her Ladyship (by Alibhai), dam of stakes winner Brook Judge (by Count of Honor) and third dam of Grade 2 winner Lotta Honey. In addition, she is a half sister to Brook Miss (by Roman Line), dam of multiple restricted stakes winner Wendover Way (by Brent's Prince), and to Be Proud (by Tamao), third dam of 2004 Venezuelan champion 2-year-old filly Dancing Along.
Dame Fritchie is out of the winning Bull Dog mare So Proudly, whose dam At Top is a stakes-winning daughter of 1925 American champion 3-year-old male American Flag. At Top, in turn, is out of Lover's Lane II (by Yankee), a daughter of the notable foundation mare One I Love (by Minting).
Fun facts
- Dame Fritchie's name alludes to a popular 19th-century poem, “Barbara Frietchie”, by John Greenleaf Whittier. In the poem, which is set in the American Civil War, the elderly heroine bravely pleads with an occupying Confederate general not to shoot an American flag. Barbara Fritchie was an actual person and a Union supporter living in Frederick, Maryland, but the incident described in the poem may be a patchwork from similar flag stories. Nonetheless, Barbara Fritchie became part of popular folklore and is the namesake for a sprint race for fillies and mares run at Laurel Park and for a classic motorcycle racing event at the Frederick County Fairgrounds that has been contested on July 4 for over a century.
Last updated: September 7, 2023