Horsename: | Candy Éclair |
Sire: | Northern Jove |
Grandsire: | Northern Dancer |
Dam: | Candy's Best |
Damsire: | Candy Spots |
Sex: | Filly |
Foaled: | 1976 |
Country: | United States |
Colour: | Gray |
Breeder: | Adele W. Paxson |
Owner: | Adele W. Paxson |
Trainer: | S. Allen King |
Record: | 23: 15-4-1 |
Earnings: | US$403,845 |
Race: | Brigantine Stakes (1978) Selima Stakes (1978) Mermaid Stakes (1978) Ashland Stakes (1979) Shirley Jones Stakes (1979) Endine Stakes (1980) Grey Flight Handicap (1980) Regret Handicap (1980) |
Awards: | American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1978) |
Honours: | Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1979) Candy Eclair Stakes at Monmouth Park |
Candy Éclair (foaled April 14, 1976 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Bred and raced by prominent Pennsylvanian horsewoman Adele Paxson, she was a granddaughter of the most important sire of the 20th century, Northern Dancer. She was out of the mare Candy's Best, a daughter of the 1963 Santa Anita Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Candy Spots.
Candy Éclair was conditioned for racing by Allen King and winter-trained at the Aiken Training Track in Aiken, South Carolina. Undefeated in all five of her starts at age two, she shared 1978 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors with It's In The Air. Candy Éclair won stakes races again at age three and four, finishing her career having won fifteen of her twenty-three starts. She was elected to the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame on March 17, 1979.
As a broodmare, Candy Éclair produced five foals, none of which met with racing success.