BRET HANOVER

(foaled 1962), U.S. harness racehorse (Standardbred), selected as Harness Horse of the Year in each of his three racing seasons (196466). In 1971 the membership of the Hall of the Trotter named him outstanding pacer of the 20th century. In 68 starts he scored 62 victories (35 consecutively) and won $922,616, then a record for Standardbreds. On 31 occasions he paced 1 mile in less than 2 minutes, exceeding the world record established by Dan Patch more than 50 years earlier. In 1965 he won the Triple Crown for three-year-old pacers: the Little Brown Jug, the William H. Cane Futurity, and the Messenger Stake. In 1966 he set a world 1-mile pacing record of 1:53 3/5 (subsequently broken). A bay colt, he was sired by the great pacer Adios out of Brenna Hanover.