Accolade
Classification:
3 W-R[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 1956
Seed Parent: 
Kilworth 2 W-YOO 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
White Sentinel x Hades
Kilworth
Pollen Parent: 
Cairo 2 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Seraglio x Red Sun
Cairo
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, pure white, slightly inflexed, concave near apex and with margins minutely incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments more strongly inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, shallow, orange-red, deeply ribbed and frilled.

Origin of Name

Part of Richardson’s “Race Horse Series.” Named after a successful United States racehorse best known for winning the 2004 champagne Stakes and 2005 Hutcheson Stakes.