{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Jacola , image = , caption = , sire = Jacopo , grandsire = Sansovino , dam = La France , damsire =

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, sex =

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, foaled = 1935 , country = United States , colour =

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, breeder = Arthur B. Hancock , owner = Nancy Carr Friendly , trainer = Selby L. Burch , record = 25: 11-5-4 , earnings =

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Selima Stakes The Selima Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Raced in late November, it is open to two-year-old fillies and is raced on turf. History Inaugurated in 1926, it is named for ...

(1937)

Washington Handicap The Washington Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of a mile and a quarter (10 furlongs). At one ...

(1938)
Maryland Handicap (1938)
Laurel Stakes (1938)
Victorian Handicap (1939) , awards =

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(1937) , honours = , updated= , death_date={{death year and age, 1959, 1935 Jacola (1935–1959) was an American Champion

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. Bred by Arthur B. Hancock, she was sired by the British import Jacopo, a son of the 1924

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winner, Sansovino. Jacola was out of the

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La France, a daughter of

, who was the

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in 1930, 1933, 1934, and 1940 and who sired 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner

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. A year following Jacola's birth, La France foaled U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Johnstown, winner of the 1939

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and

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. Purchased by Edward Friendly of

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, and raced under his wife's name, Jacola was conditioned by

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, brother to trainer Preston Burch, sons of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee William P. Burch. Racing at age two in 1937, Jacola notably won the

and ran second against males in the

Pimlico Futurity The Laurel Futurity is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in late September at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Run over a distance of miles on turf, at one time it was a Grade I stakes race on dirt, and one of the riches ...

. In year-end balloting, shea edged out Wheatley Stable's Merry Lassie for

honors

At age three, Jacola continued to be one of the top fillies racing in the United States and kept winning against male horses. In October 1938, she beat older males three straight times in the one month. She won the Maryland Handicap and Washington Handicap, and, under jockey

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, set a new

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record for one mile of 1:37.00 while beating the great

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by two lengths in the Laurel Stakes

Wintered at training facilities in

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, in February 1939 Jacola was sent to compete in

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, where her best result was a third to

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in the March running of the

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. The January 18, 193, issue of the ''

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'' refers to her as the" champion 3-year-old mare of 1938" and the newspaper repeats that in its ensuing February 5 and 26 edition

Back on the

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, Jacola won the 1939 Victorian Handicap at the

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Breeding record

Jacola produced two foals by 1943 U.S. Triple Crown winner

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, but her best foal was a colt named

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, who was sired by Pilate. Phalanx won the 1947

and was voted American Champion 3-Year-Old Colt.

References

Jacola's pedigree and partial racing stats
1935 racehorse births 1959 racehorse deaths Thoroughbred family 17-b Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States American Champion racehorses