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Omaha (horse)
Omaha (March 24, 1932 – April 24, 1959) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the third winner of the American Triple Crown. In a racing career which lasted from 1934 to 1936, Omaha won 9 of his 22 races. He had his greatest success as a three-year-old in 1935 when he swept the Triple Crown. As a four-year-old, he narrowly lost the Ascot Gold Cup. Background Foaled at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, Omaha was a chestnut horse with a white blaze who stood 16.3 hands high. He was the son of 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and the mare Flambino. Omaha was the third horse to ever win the Triple Crown, which he did in 1935. Flambino also produced the Ascot Gold Cup winner Flares and was the sister of La France, the direct female ancestor of many notable thoroughbreds including Danzig Connection, Decidedly, and Johnstown. The horse was owned by and bred William Woodward Sr.'s famous Belair Stud in Bowie, Maryland. He was trained by Sunny Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallant Fox
Gallant Fox (March 23, 1927 – November 13, 1954) was a champion American Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who is the second winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, American Triple Crown. In a racing career which lasted from 1929 to 1930, Gallant Fox won 11 of his 17 races including the three Triple Crown races. The term "Triple Crown" was not commonly used at the time but was employed by ''The New York Times'' to describe the colt's achievements. Background Gallant Fox was a bay colt with a white Horse markings, blaze, was foaled at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, and was one of many leading American racehorses sired by the French-bred stallion Sir Gallahad III. His dam was the mare Marguerite (horse), Marguerite, who also produced Gallant Fox's full brother Fighting Fox, whose wins included the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, the Wood Memorial Stakes, and the Carter Handicap. Owned by the Belair Stud of Collington, Maryland, Gallant Fox was trained b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood-Horse Magazine List Of The Top 100 Racehorses Of The 20th Century
Around 1998, '' The Blood-Horse'' magazine polled a seven-person panel of distinguished horse racing officials and journalists: Keeneland racing secretary Howard Battle, Maryland Jockey Club vice president Lenny Hale, '' Daily Racing Form'' columnist Jay Hovdey, ''Sports Illustrated'' senior writer William Nack, California senior steward Pete Pedersen, '' Louisville Courier-Journal'' racing writer Jennie Rees and Gulfstream Park steward Tommy Trotter. Each of the experts compiled a list of what they considered to be the top 100 Thoroughbred racehorses of the 20th century, which was then combined into a master list first published in a special issue of the magazine in February 1999. The controversial list, which named Man O'War number one and Secretariat number two, was expanded into a 1999 book which included complete biographies of the horses. All the horses on the list had raced in the United States except Phar Lap, and a few others such as Northern Dancer, Dahlia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smokey Saunders
William "Smokey" Saunders (April 13, 1915 – July 30, 1986) was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on Omaha in 1935. News reports in Saunders’ lifetime used both the nicknames “Willie” and “Smokey.” Early years Though considered a Canadian, Saunders was born in Bozeman, Montana in 1915. He moved with his family to Calgary, Alberta when he was eight years old. There, he spent time at Canadian tracks as a hot walker and exercise boy. As a teenager, Saunders returned to Bozeman, where he lived with an uncle, Guy Saunders, attended high school, and rode races at small tracks in Montana. Saunders moved to California in 1932. Career In California, Saunders began riding under contract for trainer L.T. Whitehill, and earned his first major win at Tanforan Racetrack in northern California on April 4 1932. Competing at tracks in southern California, Alberta-born U.S. Racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowie, Maryland
Bowie () is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 58,329. Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County; it is also the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2014, CNN Money ranked Bowie 28th in its Best Places to Live (in the United States) list. The city is home to Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest historically black university. History 19th century The city of Bowie owes its existence to the railway. In 1853, Colonel William Duckett Bowie obtained a charter from the Maryland General Assembly, Maryland legislature to construct a rail line into Southern Maryland. In 1869, the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company began the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to Southern Maryland, terminating in Popes Creek, Maryland, Pope's Creek. The area had alre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Woodward Sr
William Woodward Sr. (April 7, 1876 – September 25, 1953) was an American banker and major owner and breeder in thoroughbred horse racing. __TOC__ Early life Woodward was born in New York City on April 7, 1876. He was a son of Sarah Abagail (née Rodman) Woodward (1840–1913) and William Woodward Jr. (1836–1889), who came from a prominent and wealthy Maryland family that dated back to colonial times. The family, who were already well established textile merchants, made their fortune in selling textiles to both the Unionist government and Confederate government, his father was the founder of the New York Cotton Exchange and an important financial backer of Benito Juárez's Liberal government. His uncle, James T. Woodward, was one of the chief financiers who acquired the rights for the Panama Canal from France for the United States. He was educated at the Cutler School in New York before preparing at Groton. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1898, followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnstown (horse)
Johnstown (March 12, 1936 – May 14, 1950) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won two out of every three races he competed in. Background Johnstown was a bay horse bred at Claiborne Farm. He was purchased by William Woodward Sr. and raced under his Belair Stable banner. Racing career After a successful season racing at age two when he won seven of his twelve starts, in the spring of 1939 Johnstown gave trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons his third straight Wood Memorial Stakes, an important stepping stone to the U.S. Triple Crown races. The heavy favorite going into the Kentucky Derby, Johnstown got off to a slow start under jockey James Stout, then he took command by the mile pole and defeated Challedon by eight lengths, tying the (still current, 2015) record for margin of victory. In the Preakness Stakes, it came up muddy (he never raced on an off-track before or after), and Johnstown finished 5th to winner Challedon. With Challedon not eligible for the Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decidedly
Decidedly (March 3, 1959 – November 12, 1984) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known for winning the 1962 Kentucky Derby. Background Decidedly was a gray horse bred in California by George Pope. His sire Determine from whom he inherited his gray coat, won the Kentucky Derby in 1954. Decidedly's dam Gloire Fille was descended from the broodmare La France (foaled 1928) who was the female line ancestor of numerous other major winners including Phalanx, Danzig Connection and Johnstown. Racing career Ridden by Bill Hartack, Decidedly set a new Churchill Downs track record for 1¼ miles in winning the 1962 Derby. In the second leg and third legs of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, he was unplaced. In 1963 Decidedly won five of thirteen starts and set a new Keeneland Race Course record for 11/16 miles in winning the Ben Ali Handicap. He was retired from racing at age five after the 1964 season in which he won two races from ten s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danzig Connection
Danzig Connection (April 6, 1983 – December 1, 2010) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Belmont Stakes. Background Owned and bred by Henryk de Kwiatkowski under his Kennelot Stables banner, Danzig Connection was sired by Kwaitkowski's champion, Danzig. His dam Gdynia (sired by Sir Ivor) was a moderate racehorse but a good broodmare who also produced the Dwyer Stakes winner Roi Danzig. She was a distant female-line descendant of La France, an American broodmare who was the ancestor of dam of Phalanx, Johnstown and Decidedly. He was trained by Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens, Racing career Danzig Connection raced at age two in 1985. At the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, he defeated Storm Cat to capture the World Appeal Stakes. The two colts then reversed positions in the Meadowlands' Young America Stakes. As a three-year-old, in May 1986 Danzig Connection won the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park under jockey Pat Day. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flares (horse)
Flares (foaled 1933 in Maryland) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse owned, bred, and raced by the preeminent horseman in the United States, William Woodward Sr. Flares was out of the racemare Flambino, winner of the 1927 Gazelle Stakes. His sire was the great Gallant Fox, the 1930 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, U.S. Triple Crown winner and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Flares was a full brother to Woodward's 1935 U.S. Triple Crown champion, Omaha (horse), Omaha. Determined to win England's most prestigious weight-for-age race, the Ascot Gold Cup, in 1936 Woodward sent the then four-year-old Omaha to compete in England, where he ran second in the Ascot Gold Cup. When Flares was a yearling in 1934, Woodward shipped him to trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at his base in Newmarket, Suffolk, Newmarket, England. Racing at age three, in mid-May 1936 Flares won the Newmarket Stakes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hand (unit)
The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to . It is used to measure the height of horses in many English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It was originally based on the breadth of a human hand. The adoption of the Inch#Equivalents, international inch in 1959 allowed for a standardized Imperial and US customary measurement systems#Units of length, imperial form and a Metric system, metric conversion. It may be abbreviated to "h" or "hh". Although measurements between whole hands are usually expressed in what appears to be decimal format, the subdivision of the hand is not decimal but is in radix, base 4, so subdivisions after the radix point are in quarters of a hand, which are inches. Thus, 62 inches is fifteen and a half hands, or 15.2 hh (normally said as "fifteen-two", or occasionally in full as "fifteen hands two inches"). Terminology "Hands" may be abbrevia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Markings
Markings on horses are usually distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base equine coat color, coat color. Most horses have some markings, and they help to identify the horse as a unique individual. Markings are present at birth and do not change over the course of the horse's life. Most markings have pink skin underneath most of the white hairs, though a few faint markings may occasionally have white hair with no underlying pink skin. Markings may appear to change slightly when a horse grows or sheds its winter coat, however this difference is simply a factor of hair coat length; the underlying pattern does not change. On a gray (horse), gray horse, markings visible at birth may become hidden as the horse turns white with age, but markings can still be determined by trimming the horse's hair closely, then wetting down the coat to see where there is pink skin and black skin under the hair. Recent studies have examined the genetics behind white markings and have located ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, Kentucky
Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and the county seat. It lies northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of the Licking River. It is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2020, it had a population of 10,171. History Joseph Houston settled a station in the area in 1776, but was forced to relocate due to prior land grants. In 1786, Lawrence Protzman purchased the area of present-day Paris from its owners, platted for a town, and offered land for public buildings in exchange for the Virginia legislature making the settlement the seat of the newly formed Bourbon County. In 1789, the town was formally established as Hopewell after Hopewell, New Jersey, his hometown. The next year, it was renamed Paris after the French capital to match its county and honor the French assistance during the American Revolution. Among the early settlers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries were French refugees who had fled the exces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
