Hawaii (horse) Hawaii was a South African bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion at age two and three in South Africa after which he was sent to race in the United States by owner Charles W . Engelhard, Jr. where he was voted the 1969 American Champion Turf Horse honors, upstaging Fort Marcy who was American Grass Champion or co Champion in 1967, 1968 and 1970. Among his wins in the United States was a track record setting performance in the mile-and-a-half Man o' War Stakes on turf at Belmont Park .. In South Africa he remains the only racehorse to have won all three Guineas staged in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg. The Hawaii Stakes run over 7 furlongs every first Saturday of March at Turffontein racecourse in South Africa is named after him.Background Hawaii was foaled at the Colesberg , South Africa stud , Platberg Stud, of the Dell Brothers in 1964. He was by the relatively unsuccessful stallion out of the mare Ethane. Ethane produced another great South African racehorse In 1961, William Penn , who raced from . William Penn won 16 of 58 starts including 12 stakes races. He won the 1964 South African Guineas and beat his younger sibling Hawaii in the 1968 Champion Stakes . Ethane was South African Broodmare of the Year in 1967. He was sold to Charles Englehard Jr at the 1966 National Yearling Sales in South Africa, for ZAR9000, picked for his owner by trainer George Azzie. He finished his racing career in South Africa in October 1968 and was shipped to the United States where he was trained by MacKenzie Miller . He made his first start in the US in June 1969.Racing Career Hawaii made his first start in December 1966 at Gosforth Park racecourse in Germiston South Africa and has his last start in November 1969 at Laurel Park in the United States. He record in South Africa was 18 : 15-1-1 and in the United States was 10 : 6-1-2. His only unplaced efforts were in the 1968 Rothmans July Handicap in South Africa and his only start on dirt at Monmouth Park in June 1969. He set a course record in the 1969 Man o' War Stakes over 2400m. His record stood until 1973 when it was bested by Secretariat . He was champion in each year he raced in South African and was voted American Champion Turf Horse of 1969. He retired to stud in 1970.Assessment Hawaii's chief protagonist in the United States Fort Mercy was rated at 126lbs in 1969 on the DRF Grass Free Handicap, 4 lbs below Hawaii ]. In the 1968 Free Handicap Fort Marcy was rated 12lbs below Dr Fager . Dr Fager was rated by Tony Morris at a Timeform rating of 138. This would imply that Hawaii was rated 130-132 on the Timeform scale.At stud Hawaii retired from racing after the 1969 racing season having won 21 of 28 career starts with earnings of US$371,292. Sent to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky , he sired Henbit , who raced in England and won the 1980 Epsom Derby . His other outstanding progeny were Hawaiian Sound who was second in the Epsom Derby and winner of the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup in 1978, and Hunza Dancer who was third in the 1975 Epsom Derby and went on to win the Manhattan Handicap and the American Handicaps in 1977. Hawaii died at Claiborne Farm in 1990 at age twenty-six and was buried in their Marchmont division equine cemetery. In 1977, Hawaii was elected to the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame .
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