Typhoon II (foaled April 17, 1894) was an American

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racehorse that was bred in

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and was the winner of the 1897 Kentucky Derby. Typhoon won the Derby at 11-5 odds against the favored Ornament on a very muddy track. After his Derby win Typhoon II was sold on August 1, 1897 for $12,000 to Bromley & Co., owned by Joseph E. Bromley & Arthur Featherstone. He followed his Derby win by winning the Club Members' Handicap in

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but lost many races after his three-year-old season. The stallion's career declined in his fourth season, when he lost a race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track against only one other competitor. Typhoon II was

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in 1899 and was thereafter stabled at the Kenmore Farm in Lexington, a farm owned by Bromley & Co., to live the remainder of his life as a pensioner. By 1903, Featherstone ordered his trainer, Julius Bauer, to dispose of Typhoon II, as the horse's paddock was needed for another purpose. Bauer gave the horse to a friend in Lexington, who put him to work as a cart horse hauling hay for livestock.''Daily Racing Form.'' "Careers of Kentucky Derby winners." May 19, 1910.
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{{Kentucky Derby Winners 1894 racehorse births Racehorses trained in the United States Racehorses bred in Tennessee Kentucky Derby winners Thoroughbred family A18