Peanuts (horse)
Peanuts (foaled 1922 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, despite being small in size, successfully competed in top-level events at distances from a mile to a mile and one-quarter. During his four years in racing for prominent New York owner Robert L. Gerry, "little Peanuts," as the press frequently labeled him, would reach elite status when he won a race in world record time. Background Peanuts was sired by Ambassador IV who had been imported from England in the fall of 1919 by Belair Stud owner William Woodward Sr. in partnership with Arthur B. Hancock to stand at Hancock's Claiborne Farm in Kentucky. Ambassador IV sired Constancy while at stud in England and had been purchased by Hancock in 1917. She would be named the 1919 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. In addition, Ambassador IV also sired St. James, an American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, as well as the very good runners Priscilla Ruley (1921) and Herrick (1926). Grandsire Dark Ronald was the Le ...
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Ambassador IV
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'affa ...
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