{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Celtic Arms , image = , caption = , sire = Comrade In Arms , grandsire =

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, dam = Amour Celtique , damsire = Northfields , sex =

Stallion A stallion is an adult male horse that has not been gelded ( castrated). Stallions follow the conformation and phenotype of their breed, but within that standard, the presence of hormones such as testosterone may give stallions a thicker, "cre ...

, foaled = 1991 , country =

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, colour =

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, breeder = Georges Wegliszewski , owner = Jean-Louis Bouchard
Gary A. Tanaka (in USA) , trainer =

Pascal Bary Pascal Bary (born 4 April 1953) is a French Horse racing, racehorse Horse trainer, trainer. He has been training since 1981, having previously worked as an assistant to François Boutin. He is based at Chantilly, Oise. Major wins Dubai * Dubai ...

(France)
Rodney Rash (1995, 2/1996)

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(3/1996) , record = 21: 5-2-3 , earnings = $1,097,995 , race =

Prix de Condé The Prix de Condé is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to two-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run at Chantilly over a distance of 1,800 metres (1 mile 1 furlong), and it is scheduled to take place ...

(1993)

Prix Lupin The Prix Lupin was a Conditions races, Group 1 Flat racing, flat Horse racing, horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred Colt (horse), colts and Filly, fillies. It was run at Longchamp Racecourse, Longchamp over a distance of 2,100 m ...

(1994)

Prix du Jockey Club The Prix du Jockey Club, sometimes referred to as the French Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Chantilly ov ...

(1994)

Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup Turf Stakes The Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race, by invitation for four-year-olds and older over a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf track, held annually in late January or early February at Gulf ...

(1996)
Pan American Handicap (1996) , awards= , honours = , updated= Celtic Arms (20 January 1991 – 1998) was a French

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who competed successfully in both France and the United States. Bred by Georges Wegliszewski, he was out of the

mare A mare is an adult female horse or other equidae, equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more th ...

Amour Celtique, a daughter of American horse Northfields, winner of the Hawthorne and

Louisiana Derby The Louisiana Derby is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Run in late March, the race is open to horses, age three, willing to race miles on the dirt. It currently o ...

s. His sire was multiple French stakes winner, Comrade In Arms, a son of one of Britain's great runners,

. Purchased by Jean-Louis Bouchard, Celtic Arms was trained in France by

. He made his racing debut as a juvenile with a third-place finish in the

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. Jockey

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then rode him to victory in the

, his most important performance of 1993. As a three-year-old, under jockey

Gerald Mosse Gerald is a masculine given name derived from the Germanic languages prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Gerald is a Norman French variant of the Germanic name. An Old English equivalent name was Garweald, the likely original ...

, Celtic Arms finished third in the 1994

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and won the Group One

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. Mosse was the jockey for another of the colt's Group One wins in the

Chantilly Racecourse Chantilly Racecourse (In French: "Hippodrome de Chantilly") is a Thoroughbred grass, turf race track, racecourse for flat racing in Chantilly, Oise, France, about north of the centre of the city of Paris. Chantilly Racecourse is located in the ...

. Sent to

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for the 1994

Breeders' Cup Turf The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for three-year-olds and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships. The race's current ...

, Celtic Arms was part of one of the strongest international fields in the 1½ mile event's history. In a race run in track-record time, he was ridden by

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and up against winner Tikkanen plus other notable runners such as

Fraise Fraise (1988–2005) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1992 Breeders' Cup Turf. Background Fraise was a bay horse bred by Allen E. Paulson. He was sired by Strawberry Road, the 1983 Australian Horse of the Year ...

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, Paradise Creek, Volochine, and

Raintrap Raintrap (foaled 1990 in Great Britain) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Background Raintrap was a chestnut horse bred in England by his owner Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms. He was sired by Rainbow Quest who won the Prix de l'Ar ...

. Celtic Arms was in the thick of things after a mile and a quarter but then faded from third to finish in tenth place. After being purchased by Gary A. Tanaka, in 1995 Celtic Arms raced exclusively in the United States. Rodney Rash handled Celtic Arms's conditioning duties with his best results that year a second in the Grade I Caesars International Handicap at

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and a third in the Grade 1 Turf Classic Invitational at

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. Making his second appearance in that year's Breeders Cup Turf, held in 1995 at

, under jockey Gary Stevens Celtic Arms started from the far outside in post position thirteen. He was never in contention and finished tenth behind winner, Northern Spur. In 1996, Celtic Arms won the G-1

for what would turn out to be the last win for 36-year-old trainer Rodney Rash, who died from a rare blood disorder a few days later on March 1, 1996. The colt's training was then assumed by Rash's 27-year-old assistant, Ben Cecil, who won the first-ever race of his training career when Celtic Arms captured the G-2 Pan American Handicap in March. Retired to

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duty, Celtic Arms sired several foals born in 1997 and 1998. He died in an accident in 1998.

References

Celtic Arms's pedigree and partial racing stats
1991 racehorse births Racehorses bred in France Racehorses trained in France Racehorses trained in the United States Thoroughbred family 4-i