He has been called "Canada's first great racehorse" by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
[1] He was owned and bred by distilling magnate Joseph E. Seagram and Member of the Canadian Parliament who in 1906 was voted president of the Ontario Jockey Club.
[2] Inferno was out of the mare Bon Ino, who was owned and raced by Seagram and had won the 1898 Queen's Plate.
Havoc was a son of Himyar, the Champion Sire in North America in 1893 who notably also produced U.S.
[4] On its formation in 1976, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inducted Inferno as part of its inaugural class.