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Jet Pilot (1944-c.1965) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Purchased for US$41,000 at the Keeneland Yearling Sale by cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden, he raced under her Maine Chance Farm colors. He was sired by the English champion and 1930 Epsom Derby winner, Blenheim II, and out of the mare Black Wave by the champion French sire, Sir Gallahad III. Both Blenheim II and Sir Gallahad III had each brought to stand at stud in the United States by groups of American horsemen both of which were led by Arthur B. Hancock of Claiborne Farm. Racing at age two, Jet Pilot was second in the 1946 Arlington Futurity and third in that year’s Futurity Stakes and Champagne Stakes. However, he won the important Tremont Stakes and Pimlico Futurity. One of the winter book favorites for the 1947... Read on...