Regret (horse)

Regret (1912 - April 11, 1934) was a famous American thoroughbred racehorse and the first of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby.Foaled at Harry Payne Whitney's Brookdale Farm in Lincroft, New Jersey, and fathered by the 1913-1915 leading sire and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Famer Broomstick, (son of Ben Brush, also inducted into the Hall of Fame), and out of Jersey Lightning who goes back to the great Longfellow through his Kentucky Derby winning son, Riley), Regret was bred by owner Harry Payne Whitney. Trained by James G. Rowe, Sr., her career began with a win in the Saratoga Special Stakes on the 8th of August, 1914, against an all-male field. She led the entire race and ran a near-record time. She won a further two races that year, the Stanford Memorial and Hopeful Stakes. The following year, campaigning as a three-year-old, she won the 1915 Kentucky Derby. For her performances that season, Regret earned the most prestigious honor in racing, voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.[1]
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