Brigadier Gerard (horse) the Sussex Stakes and the Lockinge Stakes, and the non-winning racemare, La Paiva, a daughter of Prince Chevalier. On his female side he traced back to the brilliant fillies' Triple Crown winner, Pretty Polly, who was his fifth dam. This beautifully balanced bay colt was named after Arthur Conan Doyle's swashbuckling hero. Brigadier Gerard had good conformation, an excellent temperament and stood 16 hands 2 inches high. Brigadier Gerard was trained during his racing career by Major Dick Hern and ridden in all his races by Joe Mercer. Brigadier Gerard began his two-year-old career on 24 June 1970 in the
Gil Gerard 1982 TV movie "Hear No Evil" as Dragon, the short-lived series "Sidekicks" (1986) and "E.A.R.T.H. Force" (1990). In 1992, Gerard presented the reality TV series "Code 3", which followed firefighters from different areas of the US as they respond to emergency calls. The show ran on the Fox TV Network until the following year. For the remainder of the 1990s, Gerard made guest appearances on various TV shows, including "Fish Police", "Brotherly Love", "The Big Easy", "Days of Our Lives" and "Pacific Blue". In January 2007, Gerard was the subject of the one-hour documentary "Action Hero Makeover" on the Discovery