Cease Fire
As a two-year-old he raced nine times, including three wins, two seconds, and two thirds, giving him a total earning of $1,895 for the season.[5] Like Goldlure, he completed in the Coronation Stakes, and was the runner up.[6]
In his three-year-old campaign, he competed in all three races that are now known as the Canadian Triple Crown, finishing no worse than second. In the King’s Plate at Woodbine he was the runner-up to Goldlure, won the Prince of Wales at Thorncliffe, and was again the runner-up in the Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine to the filly Fore Isus owned by Erindale Stables.[7] Furthermore, in the $5,000 Long Branch Handicap, he defeated Goldlure to win.[8] He also won the Ryan Art Gallery Purse and the Sweet Caporal Purse by a nose, when he defeated Monsweep, the 1936 King’s Plate winner.[9] At the conclusion of the racing season, Cease Fire was the leading three-year-old money earner with a total of $8,550; in his nine races he won four and came in second another four times.[10]
Cease Fire continued to race until 1946.[11] Donald Cowie of the Globe and Mail noted that 1938 was a particularly bad year for Cease Fire as he failed to place once in four starts.[12] However, he did win at least one race every year between 1939-1945, but some of these races included claiming races (races where all the horses are for sale).[13] In many of his races, he was a close second; for example, in 1945, Appas Tappas writes in the Globe and Mail that “Cease Fire was beaten in two races by a nose and in the other by a head.”[14] In 1940, he was purchased by A.J. Halliwell.[15] According to Equibase, over his racing career he won started 182 times, with thirty-one wins, forty-four seconds, and twenty-six thirds, giving him a total earning of $32,814.[16]
[1] “King’s Plate Nominations,” The Globe and Mail, April 10, 1937, page 20.
[2] Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, April 6, 1937, page 18.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, April 6, 1937, page 18; “Bunty Lawless Wins Clarendon Plate Test,” The Globe and Mail, September 16, 1937, page 17; Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, May 24, 1937, page 23.
[5] Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, April 7, 1937, page 18.
[6] Tommy Munns, “Scanning the Sport Field: Pagan King Shows the Way to Stellar Equine Juveniles,” The Globe, September 28, 1936, page 7.
[7] Tommy Munns, “Scanning the Sport Field,” The Globe, June 18, 1937, page 19; “Teddy Haslam Scores at Woodbine Closing,” The Globe and Mail, October 4, 1937, page 21.
[8] Tommy Munns, “Scanning the Sport Field,” The Globe, June 18, 1937, page 19.
[9] “Bunty Lawless Wins Clarendon Pate Test,” The Globe and Mail, September 16, 1937, page 17; Don Cowie, “Bain Racers Feature at Thorncliffe Closing,” The Globe and Mail, September 20, 1937, page 19.
[10] Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, October 27, 1937, page 16.
[11] “Cease Fire,” Equibase, accessed March 11, 2019. URL: https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=80025®istry=T&rbt=TB.
[12] Donald Cowie, “Racing Notes,” The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1939, page 14.
[13] Appas Tappas, “Thundering Hoofs,” The Globe and Mail, July 11, 1945, page 12.
[14] Appas Tappas, “Thundering Hoofs,” The Globe and Mail, August 24, 1945, page 14.
[15] Douglas Eppes, “Hoof Beats,” The Globe and Mail, June 4, 1940, page 16.
[16] “Cease Fire,” Equibase, accessed March 11, 2019. URL: https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=80025®istry=T&rbt=TB.
