Triple Crown wins:Belmont Stakes (1954)High Gun (foaled 1951 in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Trainer Max Hirsch purchased High Gun for Robert J. Kleberg's King Ranch at the 1952 Keeneland Yearling Sale for $10,200 ($117,032 in 2023).
In 1954, High Gun was the best three-year-old colt in the United States, winning the Peter Pan Handicap, Dwyer Stakes, the third leg of the U.S.
That year he followed Tom Fool as the only horses to ever win the Sysonby Handicap twice, doing it by defeating the great Nashua.
High Gun was regularly ridden by Anthony DeSpirito, the 1952 United States Champion Jockey.