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Colin (1905-1932) was an undefeated American Thoroughbred horse racing champion. Commando (1898-1905) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. ...
Domino (1891-1897) was a 19th century American thoroughbred race horse. ...
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James Robert Keene born 1838 - January 3, 1913 was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. ...
James G. Rowe, Sr. ...
The Champagne Stakes is a Grade I horse race in the United States for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings. ...
First run in 1901, the Saratoga Special Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses run in early to mid August at Saratoga Race Course. ...
The Matron Stakes is a race for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies that takes place each year at Belmont Park. ...
The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 United Kingdom flat racing horse race for horses three years old above run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 7 yards at Sandown Park during July. ...
The Withers Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses. ...
The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
The Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Yr-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually. ...
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
In 1999, The Blood-Horse magazine compiled a list of what its staff members considered to be the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century who had competed in the United States. ...
Thoroughbred horse racing is the main form of horse-racing throughout the world. ...
One of the very greatest
A brown colt with three white socks and a stripe down his face, Colin was bred at Castleton Stud in Kentucky, a farm owned, though seldom visited, by London born financier James R. Keene and trained by Hall of Famer James G. Rowe, Sr.. Rowe had handled many top quality horses in his long career, including Sysonby, Hindoo, who was never out of the money, and the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby, Regret. Just as he himself was, all these and more of his horses: Miss Woodford, Luke Blackburn, Whisk Broom II, Commando, Peter Pan, were inducted into the Hall of Fame. A colt or filly with its mother A Colt is a young male horse, under the age of four. ...
Castleton Lyons near Lexington, Kentucky is an American horse racing stable and breeding business best known by the name Castleton Farm. ...
Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area Ranked 37th - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 1. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
James Robert Keene born 1838 - January 3, 1913 was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. ...
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
James G. Rowe, Sr. ...
Born in Kentucky in 1902, Sysonby, was an American thoroughbred racehorse, the son of the 1885 Epsom Derby winner, Melton, out of the English mare Optime. ...
Hindoo (1878-1901) was an American thoroughbred race horse. ...
The Hannah Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ...
Regret (1912—April 11, 1934) was a famous American thoroughbred racehorse and the first of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby. ...
Miss Woodford beating Freeland in 1885 Foaled in 1880, Miss Woodford was a big brown Thoroughbred racing filly bred by Colonel Catesby Woodford and Colonel Ezekial Clay of Runnymead Farm near Paris, Kentucky. ...
Whisk Broom II (1907-1928) was American-bred thoroughbred racehorse who raced in the United Kingdom and in the United States. ...
Commando (1898-1905) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. ...
Rowe's boss, James Keene, was not keen on Colin, noting the misfiguring curb, or thoroughpin, on a hock...meaning Colin had an ungainly enlarged hock. He'd been just as disdainful of an earlier purchase: Colin's grandsire Domino, (another eventual Horse of the Year in 1893 and Hall of Famer), but his son, Foxwell Keene, went ahead and bought Domino anyway. Domino produced the Hall of Famer and 1900 and 1901's Horse of the Year, Commando, and Commando produced Colin out of the English stakes winning mare Pastorella (by Springfield). Domino (1891-1897) was a 19th century American thoroughbred race horse. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
A friend of Keene's, De Courcey Forbes, always named the Castleton foals. Colin was for "Poor Colin", a pastoral poem by the English poet laureate Nicholas Rowe, thus neatly connecting the name of Colin's dam and the name of his trainer, a trainer who took a keen interest in his horses. A hands-on trainer, Rowe was famous for the personal attention he paid to his horses. He literally traveled in the same railroad car with them. Aware that Colin's swollen hock would give him trouble, Rowe attended to it diligently with massages and cold water baths. A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events. ...
Nicholas Rowe Guilt is the source of sorrow, tis the fiend, Th avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings Nicholas Rowe (1674 – 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was selected Poet Laureate in 1715. ...
Consistently rated as one of the best horses in American racing history, and a real celebrity with both fans and horsemen, Colin started fifteen times in his two year career and never lost a race. Twelve of these races were when he was still a two-year-old. In an age that valued stamina and maturity (unlike the speed that seems so important today), Colin was still viewed with awe by the horsemen of his time. Those races at such a young age must have been truly thrilling to watch. As sportswriter Abram Hewitt said, "The blood surges, and the pulses quicken at the very sight of such Olympians on the track." Hewitt had "listened to old-time horsemen talk about Colin with an other-world expression on their faces." Hardly surprising that he was voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year twice: in 1907 and 1908. He was also America's Champion Three-Year-Old Male in 1908. The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
An unblemished racing career -
- Broke his maiden against 23 rivals at Belmont Park on May 29, 1907 going off as the 6/5 favorite.
- National Stallion Stakes (racing just three days later, he broke the track record)
- Eclipse Stakes (raced four days later with bucked shins and carrying 125 pounds in the pouring rain)
- Great Trial Stakes (given 24 days rest, carrying 129 pounds, without extending himself)
- Brighton Junior Stakes (beginning to be talked of as the "best two-year-old in history. His swollen hock was beginning to recede, but he began coughing, a very worrisome symptom.)
- Saratoga Special Stakes (still coughing, and not looking well, but not about to stop Colin beating the unbeaten Uncle. His jockey, the eventual Hall of Famer Walter Miller said, "I could have gone away at any time. Even if loafing along, he can get into action quicker than any horse I have ever seen when it becomes necessary. Seems to me he can go right from a loafing gallop into his full racing speed in one stride," but he "never wants to do any more than he has to.")
- Grand Union Hotel Stakes (four days later, without exertion and without a cough. Said the "The Thoroughbred Record," "Colin has become as much of a public idol at Saratoga as he was at Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay and his defeat would have been looked upon as a public calamity.")
- Futurity Stakes (50,000 showed up at Sheepshead Bay to watch. Colin was "the absolute master of the situation," in stakes-record time of 1:11⅕ for the straight six furlongs.)
- Flatbush Stakes (although promised time off and a rest, Colin raced one week later, winning by three lengths)
- Brighton Produce (about this and the Matron Stakes, "The Thoroughbred Record" exclaimed, "The more one sees of him, the more firm is the conviction that he is the best horse ever bred in America or ever raced here.")
- Matron Stakes (Colt's Division, beating Fair Play)
- Champagne Stakes (by six lengths, beating the only filly to show up, Stamina. Colin was mobbed in the paddock by fans. "The Thoroughbred Record" was overcome by his dominance. He also established a new American record of 1:23 for the distance on a straightaway.)
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- Withers Stakes - with regular jockey Walter Miller increasingly having difficulty making weight, a new jockey and another eventual Hall of Famer, Joe Notter rode him to victory.
- Belmont Stakes. (Not timed because of heavy rain; Colin ran lame in the fog over the objections of Rowe, and thanks to the keeness of Keene. Again, he beat a very game Fair Play. It was close but it was Colin's, even though many said Notter misjudged the finish line.)
- Tidal Stakes (a political statement by Keene, claiming Colin would fill the stands even though New York had recently banned gambling. They came out to see him, though not exactly filling the stands.)
Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York in Nassau County on Long Island (just outside of New York City). ...
is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 United Kingdom flat racing horse race for horses three years old above run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 7 yards at Sandown Park during July. ...
First run in 1901, the Saratoga Special Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses run in early to mid August at Saratoga Race Course. ...
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
Several places and events that have shared the name Saratoga. ...
The Matron Stakes is a race for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies that takes place each year at Belmont Park. ...
Fair Play (1905-1929) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so as a sire. ...
The Champagne Stakes is a Grade I horse race in the United States for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings. ...
The Withers Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses. ...
Joseph A. Notter (June 21, 1890 - April 10, 1973) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and winner of two of the American Classic Races. ...
The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ...
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Colin at stud Colin's last victory came on June 20, 1908 after which he was sent to England to race, but was pulled up lame in a workout, injured badly enough for even Keene to call it a day. He then retired to stud where he was neglected by the English due to his American bloodlines. First in England, and then back in Kentucky after Keene died, Colin was not the most potent of stallions. Plagued by infertility, his old racing rival, Fair Play, whom he'd often beaten, sired Man o' War, but Colin still managed eleven stakes winners out of 81 foals in 23 seasons at stud, which translates into 14% of his get. One of these was the paternal grandsire of the great Alsab. Another was On Watch, the broodmare sire of another great, Stymie. Lost in the Fog's female line traces to Colin's dam, Pastorella. is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Man o War, (March 29, 1917 Nursery Stud farm, Lexington, Kentucky - November 1, 1947, Faraway Farm) is considered by most to be the greatest thoroughbred racehorse of all time. ...
One of greastest racehorses never to win a championship. ...
A small chestnut born on April 4, 1941 (who started out running with his head high, but unfortunately, also running slowly), Stymie was one of the greatest bargains in thoroughbred racing history. ...
Lost in the Fog was an American thoroughbred race horse. ...
He lived a good long life, dying in 1932 at the age of twenty seven on his last farm, the Belray near Middleburg, Virginia. His lifetime earnings amounted to $178,110. Motto: Semel Et Semper Coordinates: State Virginia County Loudon Mayor Betsy Davis Area - City 1. ...
Kent Hollingsworth wrote in "The Great Ones": "Great horses have been beaten by mischance, racing luck, injury and lesser horses running the race of their lives. None of these, however, took Colin. He was unbeatable."
Honors due Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956 and in The Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #15. It would be eighty years before another horse, Personal Ensign, retired unbeaten. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. ...
In 1999, a panel for The Blood-Horse magazine made up of distinguished horse racing people Howard Battle, Lenny Hale, Jay Hovdey, William Nack, Pete Pedersen, Jennie Rees and Tommy Trotter compiled a list of what they considered to be the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century who had...
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During his day, Rowe was considered America's greatest trainer. Yet all he wanted on his epitaph were these three words: He Trained Colin.
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