Aymond Le Jeune (1059–1063)
Aymond (foaled 1927 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse best known for winning the 1930 King's Plate. Bred by Whitby, Ontario, Whitby, Ontario's James Heffering, he was out of the mare, Ablaze, and sired by Roselyon, a son of the 1911 Epsom Derby winner and British Horseracing Hall of Fame inductee, Sunstar (racehorse), Sunstar. Aymond was first purchased by Frank O'Connor who subsequently sold him in a 1929 dispersal for $1,025 to Toronto businessman Ryland H. New, Ryland New who had won the 1927 King's Plate with Troutlet. Trained by Jack Hutton (horseman), Jack Hutton, Aymond's best result at age two was a third-place finish in the Coronation Futurity Stakes. At age three, he won the seventy-first running of the King's Plate, the most prestigious race in Canada. Sent off at 14:1 odds, eighteen-year-old jockey Henry Little (jockey), Henry Little aboard Aymond took the lead at the start and never relinquished it as he held off the heavy favorite Whal ...
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