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William Donohue (jockey)
William J. Donohue (1854 - April, 1936) was a jockey, trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses who competed in his native Canada as well as the United States where he won each of the three races that would become the U. S. Triple Crown series. Background In an October 11, 1886 article on famous jockeys, ''The Daily Alta California'' said that "The Donohue family is a great one in American racing affairs, but of the lot William Donohue is the best known." William Donohue's first Classic win came in the June 10, 1876 Belmont Stakes at Jerome Park Racetrack in Westchester County, New York aboard Algerine. His second success in a Classic occurred on May 23, 1883, when he rode Leonatus to victory in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Donohue got his third Classic with Dunboyne in the Preakness Stakes run on May 13, 1887, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Among his other important jockey wins, in 1884 William Donohue rode General Monroe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jockey
A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word "jockey" originated from England and was used to describe the individual who rode horses in racing. They must be light, typically around a weight of 100-120 lb., and physically fit. They are typically self-employed and are paid a small fee from the horse trainer and a percentage of the horse's winnings. Jockeys are mainly male, though there are some well-known female jockeys too. The job has a very high risk of debilitating or life-threatening injuries. Etymology The word is by origin a diminutive of ''jock'', the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name ''John'', which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare ''Jack'', ''Dick''), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's ''Richard III''. v. 3, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is run over 1.5 miles (2,400 m). Colts and geldings carry a weight of ; fillies carry . The race, nicknamed The Test of the Champion, The Test of Champions and The Run for the Carnations, is the traditional third and final leg of the Triple Crown. It is usually held on the first or second Saturday in June, five weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes. The 1973 Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown winner Secretariat holds the track record (which is also a world record on dirt) of 2:24. The race covers one full lap of Belmont Park, known as "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion in racing history has competed on the racetrack. Belmont Park, with its large, wide, sweeping turns and long homestretch, is considered one of the fairest racetracks in America. Despite the distance, the race tend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Blackburn (horse)
Luke Blackburn (1877–1904) was a thoroughbred race horse born and bred in Tennessee by Capt. James Franklin. He was inducted into the US Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. Background Sired by Bonnie Scotland, his dam was Nevada out of perhaps the most influential stallion America ever produced, the great Lexington. A bay foal, he was sold at two to Capt. Jim Williams who paid $510 for him. Just over a decade since the American Civil War, only former officers could afford racehorses, hence the copious amount of captains associated with the horse. Williams named the colt for Luke P. Blackburn, the governor of the state of Kentucky at the time, and he proceeded to race him thirteen times. Luke won twice. When the horse turned three, Capt. Williams sold him to the Dwyer Brothers for $2,500, and the Dwyer Brothers placed him in the hands of the future Hall of Fame trainer, James G. Rowe, Sr. Racing career During his first start at three, Luke lost again (to a colt named F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonatus
Leonatus (foaled in 1880 in Kentucky, died 1898 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1883 Kentucky Derby. Background Leonatus was the son of Uncle John Harper's great racer and sire Longfellow, himself a son of the imported English stud Leamington. Leonatus' dam was the Daniel Swigert-bred Semper Felix, whose dam was by the great nineteenth-century American foundation stallion, Lexington, himself by Boston. Purchased by the partnership of Jack P. Chinn and George W. Morgan, and thereafter stabled in Mercer County, Kentucky, Leonatus was trained by African American horseman Raleigh Colston Sr. as well as by John McGinty. Leonatus raced in a new world of English "dash" races on the kind of racetracks we recognize today. Racing career Racing only once as juvenile, Leonatus finished second. As a three-year-old, he won ten stakes, all in either Kentucky or Illinois, within the space of 49 days. Although there were no official awards given until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horometer
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Horometer , image = , caption = , sire = Hourless , grandsire = Negofol , dam = Star Pal , damsire = North Star , sex = Gelding , foaled = 1931 , country = Canada , colour = Dark Bay/Brown , breeder = Col. Sam McLaughlin , owner = Parkwood Stable , trainer = Harry Giddings, Jr. , record = 9: 8-1-0 , earnings = $14,605 , race = Goodwood Plate (1933)Clarendon Stakes (1933)Coronation Futurity Stakes (1933) Grey Stakes Handicap (1933) Canadian Classic Race wins:Queen's Plate (1934)Breeders' Stakes (1934) , awards= , honours = Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1976) , updated= July 15, 2008 Horometer (1931–1935) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Col. Sam McLaughlin's Parkwood Stable, he was out of the mare Star Pal and sired by Hourless, the 1917 American Co-Champion 3-Yr-Old Male Horse and winner of the Belmont Stakes. Trained by Canadian Hall of Fame trainer Harry Giddings, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunboyne (horse)
Dunboyne was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Ridden by William Donohue for owner, breeder and trainer William Jennings Sr., Dunboyne won the 1887 Preakness Stakes The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs () on .... References 1884 racehorse births Racehorses bred in the United States Racehorses trained in the United States Preakness Stakes winners Thoroughbred family 2-a Byerley Turk sire line {{Racehorse-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerine (horse)
Algerine (1873 — c. 1892) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1876 Belmont Stakes and was the maternal grandsire of Rhoda B, the dam of the 1907 Epsom Derby winner Orby. Pedigree Algerine was foaled in 1873 at Bullfield Stud, formerly located in Hanover Junction, Virginia. Bullfield Stud was owned by Major Thomas Walker Doswell (1823 — 1890), and it was a premiere Thoroughbred breeding farm in the years preceding the Civil War. Algerine is described as a blood bay with black points and no white markings that stood 15.3 hands tall. Abd-el-Kader, Algerine's sire, (foaled in 1865) was a son of the imported British stallion Australian out of the Bethune mare, Rescue. Australian also notably sired Spendthrift and Springbok. Adb-el-Kader was a successful long-distance racer, notably winning a race at Saratoga in a time of 7:31 3/4. An injury to his hips as a two-year-old resulted in his having poor hip conformation. As a sire, Algerine is his most notable of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey Stakes
The Grey Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. A Grade III, it is open to two-year-old horses and is raced on dirt at a distance of miles. Since 2006, the dirt racing surface at Woodbine Racetrack has been the synthetic Polytrack. Inaugurated as the Grey Stakes at the Old Woodbine Racetrack in 1906, it was named in honor of the then Governor General of Canada, Earl Grey. Over the years it has been run at various distances: * 1 mile : 1906-1929 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) * 1 mile 70 yards : 1930-1955 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) * miles : 1956 to present at Woodbine Racetrack J. K. L. Ross, owner of the first United States Triple Crown Champion, Sir Barton, won this race five years in a row with future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Henry McDaniel. In 1926 Henry McDaniel added another win, making him the leader among all winning trainers. Notable horses who have won the race includes futur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maple Leaf Stakes
The Maple Leaf Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Run during the first part of November, the Grade III Maple Leaf is open to fillies aged three or older. Raced over a distance of one and one-quarter miles on Polytrack synthetic dirt, it currently offers a purse of $150,000. Inaugurated in 1892, the Maple Leaf Stakes has been competed at a variety of distances. Since 1956, when the new Woodbine Racetrack hosted the event, the race distance have been set as follows: * miles : 1956-1958 at Woodbine Racetrack, 1959 and 1965 at Greenwood Raceway * 1 mile : 1960-1964 at Greenwood Raceway * miles : 1966-1993 at Greenwood Raceway and since 1994 at Woodbine Racetrack Records Speed record: (at current distance of miles) * 2:02.18 - Pachattack (2010) Most wins: * 2 - Tattling (1926, 1927) * 2 - Shady Well (1932, 1933) * 2 - Passa Grille (1941, 1942) * 2 - Floral Gift (1945, 1946) * 2 - Teddy's Sister (1951, 1952) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham Cup Stakes
The Durham Cup Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Run in mid October, the Graded stakes race, Grade III race is open to horses age three and older. Raced over a distance of miles on Synthetic racetrack surfaces for horse racing, Tapeta synthetic dirt, it currently offers a current purse of Can$150,000. The race was first run in 1906 as the Durham Cup Handicap at Old Woodbine Racetrack. It remained there until the track was closed and replaced by the new Woodbine racetrack. Since inception it has been contested at various distances: * miles : 1906-1951 * miles : 1952-1979 * miles : 1980–present In 1992, Francine Villeneuve became the first female jockey to win the race. Records Speed record: * On Synthetic dirt surface: ** 1:48.33 - Golden Sabre (2015) * On natural dirt: ** 1:48.58 - Deputy Inxs (1999) Most wins: * 3 - Basqueian (1994, 1995, 1996) Most wins by an owner: * 4 - Joseph E. Seagram (1906, 1908 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarendon Stakes
The Clarendon Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race currently run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Held in early July, the sprint race is open to two-year-old horses foaled in the Province of Ontario and is contested over a distance of five and a half furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It currently offers a purse of $150,000. Inaugurated in 1926 at Toronto's now defunct Thorncliffe Park Raceway, it was known as the Clarendon Plate. In 1953 the race was moved to the Old Woodbine Racetrack then in 1956 to its present home at the new Woodbine Racetrack. In 1967 Dancer's Image won this race and went on to win the following year's Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year .... References The Clarendon Stakes at Pedigree Query Restricted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Handicap
The Brighton Handicap was an American thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1896 through 1907 at the Brighton Beach Race Course in Brighton Beach, Coney Island, New York and in 1910 at Empire City Race Track. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt over a distance of a mile and a quarter (ten furlongs). A premier event, in the late 19th and early part of the 20th century the Brighton Handicap, along with the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay Race Track and the Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park Racecourse, were the big three events of the Northeastern United States racing season. Race notes On three occasions, 1902, 1903 and 1904, a new world record was set by the race winner. In a review of Peter Pan's win in the 1907 race in front of 40,000 fans, the ''New York Morning Telegraph'' was quoted as saying the horse "accomplished a task that completely overshadowed any previous 3-year-old performance in turf history." Following passage of the Hart–A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
