Cicada (horse)

Tags: Race Horse.

Cicada (May 9 1959 – 1981) was an American Thoroughbred champion racehorse bred by Christopher Chenery’s Meadow Stud. A bay filly by Bryan G. she was out of Satsuma; Satsuma’s dam was Hildene a blue hen mare (a prolific producer of quality offspring) and the first horse owned by Chenery (who later bred and owned Secretariat).

award

American Champion Older Female Horse, American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly

breeder

Christopher Chenery

colour

Bay (horse)

damsire

Bossuet_(horse)

grandsire

Blenheim (horse)

honours

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Cicada Stakes

owner

Christopher Chenery

race

Kentucky Oaks, Schuylerville Stakes, Eight Belles Stakes, Garden State Park Gardenia Stakes, Distaff Handicap, Blue Hen Stakes, Astarita Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Beldame Stakes, Frizette Stakes, Matron Stakes (United States), Mother Goose Stakes, Spinaway Stakes, Sheepshead Bay Stakes, Vagrancy Handicap

sex

Filly

sire

Bryan G.