Harry Bassett

Harry Bassett was a chestnut stallion, He was sold at the 1869 S. D. Bruce yearling sale to trainer David McDaniel for $315 (). ==Racing career==

Harry Bassett was trained by his owner David McDaniel; his jockey was W. Miller. As a two-year-old he won the 1870 Nursery Stakes at Jerome Park Racetrack, the Central Stakes, the Kentucky Stakes, and the Saratoga Stakes. He made a total of four starts as a two-year-old of which he won three, placing third in the other. The race was run on June 10 over a distance of miles (13 furlongs/2,600 meters) on a fast track. Harry Bassett won by three lengths from the second-placed finisher Stockwood; the third place went to August Belmont's By The Sea. This was the first of three consecutive wins of the Belmont Stakes by David McDaniel as both owner and trainer, as he went on to win the 1872 race with Joe Daniels and the 1873 race with Springbok. At age five, Harry Bassett started eight times, winning two, placing second in two, and third once. At six, he started four times, winning once and placing third once. the title of Champion Three-Year-Old Male in 1871, and the Champion Older Horse title in 1872. ==Stud record==

When his racing career ended Harry Bassett was retired to McDaniel's stud farm in Trenton, New Jersey, where he sired stakes winners such as Bowstring and Lettina out of the imported mare Letty by imported Australian. Lettina won the Young America Stakes (Nashville), the Jackson Stakes and the Ladies Stakes in 1881, when she was two years old. Harry Bassett died on October 27, 1878, at McDaniel's farm in New Jersey. He was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2010. ==Pedigree==

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