The Preakness Stakes was the only major score of Dauber's racing career, but that plus placings in the other two Triple Crown races and the Santa Anita Derby were enough to rank the colt high in a mediocre crop of American 3-year-old males. He was not a success as a stallion in a relatively brief stud career.
Race record
22 starts, 5 wins, 6 seconds, 5 thirds, US$80,130
1937:
1938:
Assessments
Ranked third among American 3-year-old males of 1938 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A chestnut, Dauber handled off going well. He fell prey to a career-ending injury following the 1938 Belmont Stakes.
As a stallion
Dauber sired 36 winners (55.4%) and one stakes winner (1.5%) from 65 named foals according to records kept by The Jockey Club.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Dauber was bred by C. V. “Sonny” Whitney and was owned by William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Farms, which bought the colt for US$29,000 from Whitney's 1937 dispersal. Dauber was trained by Richard Handlen.
Pedigree notes
Dauber is a half brother to 1933 Youthful Stakes winner Billy M. (by Peter Pan). His dam Ship of War is a half sister to 1929 Alabama Stakes winner Aquastella (by Cudgel), dam of the stakes-winning hurdler Last (by Only One). Ship of War is also a half sister to Magic Wand (by Peter Pan), a minor stakes winner according to Clio Hogan's Index to Stakes Winners 1865-1967, and to Waterflag (by Sir Martin), third dam of 1954 Stars and Stripes Handicap winner Sir Mango.
Ship of War is out of Waterblossom (by Waterboy), winner of the 1915 Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes. She is a full sister to five-time stakes winner Waterbass and a half sister to Ballotade (by Ballot), dam of six-time stakes winner Sir Harry (by Wildair). The next dam in Dauber's tail-female line, Basseting, is by the St. Simon horse Bassetlaw out of Suscol (by Sir Modred), a full sister to 1893 Gazelle Stakes and Ladies' Handicap winner Naptha and a half sister to My Gyps (by Kyrle Daly), dam of four stakes winners including 1914 Latonia Derby winner John Gund (by Peep o' Day) and third dam of 1923 Spinaway Stakes winner Anna Marrone II. Suscol and her siblings were produced from Napa (by Enquirer).
*The tail-female line to which Dauber belongs traditionally has been traced to a mare foaled in the early to mid-1760s by Jack of Diamonds out of Diana, a 1754 mare by the Cullen Arabian who is considered to be the foundation mare of Bruce Lowe family 12-b. However, modern research into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed only through the direct female line, indicates that an error occurred in the recorded female line somewhere in the eight generations between Diana and an unnamed daughter of imported Tranby who was foaled in 1835. Adding to the confusion, a second line of descent erroneously attributed to Diana also traces to a daughter of Jack of Diamonds who cannot be either identical to or a full sister of the mare who is the ancestor of Dauber because the two’s known descendants have different mtDNA haplotypes.
Books and media
Dauber is profiled in Chapter 6 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Photo credit
Photographer unknown. From the private collection of Dale Wyatt; used by permission.
Last updated: October 27, 2024
Race record
22 starts, 5 wins, 6 seconds, 5 thirds, US$80,130
1937:
- 2nd Christiana Stakes (USA, 5.5FD, Delaware)
- 3rd Pimlico Futurity (USA, 8.5FD, Pimlico)
- 3rd Ardsley Handicap (USA, 8f+70yD, Empire City)
- 3rd Great American Stakes (USA, 6FD, Aqueduct)
1938:
- Won Preakness Stakes (USA, 9.5FD, Pimlico)
- 2nd Kentucky Derby (USA, 10FD, Churchill Downs)
- 2nd Santa Anita Derby (USA, 9FD, Santa Anita)
- 2nd Belmont Stakes (USA, 12FD, Belmont)
Assessments
Ranked third among American 3-year-old males of 1938 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A chestnut, Dauber handled off going well. He fell prey to a career-ending injury following the 1938 Belmont Stakes.
As a stallion
Dauber sired 36 winners (55.4%) and one stakes winner (1.5%) from 65 named foals according to records kept by The Jockey Club.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Dauber was bred by C. V. “Sonny” Whitney and was owned by William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Farms, which bought the colt for US$29,000 from Whitney's 1937 dispersal. Dauber was trained by Richard Handlen.
Pedigree notes
Dauber is a half brother to 1933 Youthful Stakes winner Billy M. (by Peter Pan). His dam Ship of War is a half sister to 1929 Alabama Stakes winner Aquastella (by Cudgel), dam of the stakes-winning hurdler Last (by Only One). Ship of War is also a half sister to Magic Wand (by Peter Pan), a minor stakes winner according to Clio Hogan's Index to Stakes Winners 1865-1967, and to Waterflag (by Sir Martin), third dam of 1954 Stars and Stripes Handicap winner Sir Mango.
Ship of War is out of Waterblossom (by Waterboy), winner of the 1915 Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes. She is a full sister to five-time stakes winner Waterbass and a half sister to Ballotade (by Ballot), dam of six-time stakes winner Sir Harry (by Wildair). The next dam in Dauber's tail-female line, Basseting, is by the St. Simon horse Bassetlaw out of Suscol (by Sir Modred), a full sister to 1893 Gazelle Stakes and Ladies' Handicap winner Naptha and a half sister to My Gyps (by Kyrle Daly), dam of four stakes winners including 1914 Latonia Derby winner John Gund (by Peep o' Day) and third dam of 1923 Spinaway Stakes winner Anna Marrone II. Suscol and her siblings were produced from Napa (by Enquirer).
*The tail-female line to which Dauber belongs traditionally has been traced to a mare foaled in the early to mid-1760s by Jack of Diamonds out of Diana, a 1754 mare by the Cullen Arabian who is considered to be the foundation mare of Bruce Lowe family 12-b. However, modern research into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed only through the direct female line, indicates that an error occurred in the recorded female line somewhere in the eight generations between Diana and an unnamed daughter of imported Tranby who was foaled in 1835. Adding to the confusion, a second line of descent erroneously attributed to Diana also traces to a daughter of Jack of Diamonds who cannot be either identical to or a full sister of the mare who is the ancestor of Dauber because the two’s known descendants have different mtDNA haplotypes.
Books and media
Dauber is profiled in Chapter 6 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Photo credit
Photographer unknown. From the private collection of Dale Wyatt; used by permission.
Last updated: October 27, 2024