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| colour =
Chestnut
| breeder =
Moyglare Stud Farm
| owner = Moyglare Stud Farm
| trainer =
Dermot K. Weld
| record = 15: 6-0-2
| earnings = $727,491
| race =
Tyros Stakes (1989)
Laurel Futurity (1989)
Minstrel Stakes (1990)
American Classic Race wins:Belmont Stakes (1990)
| awards=
| honours =
Go And Go Round Tower Stakes at the
Curragh
| updated= September 23, 2007
}}
Go And Go (1987-2000) was an
Irish Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning an
American Classic race. Owned and bred by
Swiss businessman,
Walter Haefner, Go And Go was bred at his
Moyglare Stud Farm in
Maynooth,
County Kildare. Sired by Be My Guest and out of the mare Irish Edition, his grandsire was the great
Northern Dancer and his damsire
Alleged was a two-time winner of the
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and 1977
European Horse of the Year.
Racing at age two in Ireland, Go And Go was trained by
Dermot Weld and ridden by
Michael Kinane. Between July and September of 1989, Go And Go had four starts, losing in his first then winning the next two before finishing tenth in the
Group I National Stakes at the
Curragh. Sent to the United States, Go And Go won the important
Laurel Futurity on the turf course at
Laurel Park in
Maryland. He then ran a disappointing eighth in the 1989
Breeders' Cup Juvenile at
Gulfstream Park.
In 1990, Go And Go was back in Ireland where he won the
Irish Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh in his three-year-old debut. He then ran fourth in the
Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial after which his handlers decided to try him for the first time on the dirt and entered him in June's
Belmont Stakes at
Belmont Park in
New York. With regular jockey Michael Kinane aboard Go And Go in the third and longest leg of the
U.S. Triple Crown series, he shocked American racing fans with a brilliant stretch run to win the 1½ mile race. His victory in the nine-horse field came over runners-up
Thirty Six Red and Baron De Vaux, plus fourth-place finisher, the heavily favored
Unbridled who had won the
Kentucky Derby and finished second in the
Preakness Stakes.
Go And Go then frustrated his handlers and fans in August's
Travers Stakes at
Saratoga Race Course, finishing seventh. In November's
Breeders' Cup Classic he'd to be pulled up and didn't finish. Left to race in the United States,
D. Wayne Lukas took over his training and
Kent Desormeaux became his jockey. Racing in California under Lukas, Go And Go finished third in both December's
Native Diver Handicap and the January 1991
San Fernando Stakes. He was then dropped down to an allowance race which he won. Sent next to
Arlington Park in
Chicago, he raced for the last time, finishing fourth in the 1991
Washington Park Handicap.
Retired to
stud duty where he met with only modest success. Standing at Dr. Jerry Bilinski's
Waldorf Farm in
North Chatham,
New York, in April of 2000 Go And Go had to be
euthanized as a result of a pelvis fracture sustained in a
paddock accident.
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