Sheilas Reward was an American Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 Champion

Eclipse Award

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 racehorse who was voted the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1950 and 1951. He was sired by multiple stakes winner Reaping Reward and out of the mare Smart Sheila, a daughter of the 1930 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Jamestown

Jamestown (horse)

Jamestown was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred and raced by George D. Widener, Jr., an Exemplar of Racing and someone described by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspaper as "one of thoroughbred racing's most respected horsemen." Bred in Kentucky, Jamestown's racing success...

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A Champion at two

Sheilas Reward was bred and raced by Mrs. Louis Lazare who owned his dam, Smart Sheila. Louis Lazare was President and major shareholder of Duplex Fabrics Corporation, a distributor of finished rayon fabrics to the dress trade. Lazare, a past President of the Textile Converters Association of America, Inc., sold his company to Burlington Mills Corporation

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 of New York

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 in 1947 and was appointed a Vice-President and Director. Sheilas Reward was trained by Eugene Jacobs who guided the three-year-old to wins in the 1950 Select, Fleetwing and Interborough Handicap

Interborough Handicap

The Interborough Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at the beginning of January at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York...

s. On July 5, 1950 at Jamaica Racetrack

Jamaica Racetrack

Jamaica Race Course was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility operated by the Metropolitan Jockey Club in Jamaica, New York. The track opened on April 27, 1903, a day which featured the inaugural running of the Excelsior Handicap. Eugene D. Wood, one of the founders and largest...

 in New York, Sheilas Reward broke the track record

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 by almost a full second with a time of 109 2/5 for six furlong

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s. His performances earned him his first American Champion Sprint Horse honors.

And again at three

Wins at age three in the 1951 Bay Shore, Queens County

Queens County Handicap

The Queens County Handicap is an American Grade III Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of December at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York...

, and Long Branch Handicaps brought Sheilas Reward his second straight American Champion Sprint Horse title.