Sunfire (foaled 1925 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, bred and raced by the co-owner and president of Saratoga Race Course, Richard T. Wilson, Jr. Sunfire was sired by Wilson's Olambala, a multiple winner of important races including the Latonia Derby and Suburban Handicap and sire of several top runners including the 1916 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Campfire, and Belmont and Preakness Stakes winner Pillory.
[1] In winning the Ohio Derby under jockey Roger Leonard, Sunfire set a new Bainbridge Park Race Track course record of 1:52 1/5 for a mile and a furlong.
[2] At Blue Bonnets Raceway in Montreal Sunfire won the eighteenth edition of the Windsor Hotel Cup Handicap.
A race open to horses age three and older, Sunfire was the only three-year-old in a field of seven runners.
[3] Raced again at age four, back in Toronto Sunfire won his second straight Toronto Cup Handicap and ran second to Preakness Stakes runner-up Sir Harry in the 1929 King Edward Gold Cup Handicap.