Three horses are memorialized with markers at Montpelier. The most famous of these is Battleship, who in 1938 provided Mrs. Scott with a victory in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. The 1969 Hall of Fame inductee remains the only horse to win both that race and its American equivalent, and is the most recent non-gelded male to land the prize. Battleship later sired champion steeplechasers War Battle and Shipboard. […]
Bold Venture It wouldn’t be the last time Morton L. Schwartz decided to scale back his racing interests. A news wire report from November 24, 1920 said Schwartz, a banker by trade, had sold two […]
Judging by the fact that he doesn’t have his own Wikipedia page, Eurasian might be one of the more forgettable Travers Stakes winners, which also might account for the owner’s trophy being available at auction […]
by TERESA GENARO “My lady prioress, and by your leave, So that I knew I should in no way grieve, I would opine that tell a tale you should, The one that follows next if […]
by TERESA GENARO The sight of a filly in the Mid-summer Derby is about as rare as an empty picnic table in the Saratoga backyard at 7:01 on Travers morning, but back in 1867, the […]
by TERESA GENARO Not much remains in the easily available historical record on 19th century Thoroughbred owner and breeder Francis Morris. The New York Times seems not to have published his obituary, and the guy […]
by Teresa Genaro The stakes schedule at Saratoga at the turn of the last century was already robust. Announced in February in the New York Times for the 1901 season, it featured 25 races worth […]
by Teresa Genaro They sure don’t do things like they used to at Saratoga Race Course. Back in 1922, the Alabama Stakes was already a venerable race, having been first run in 1872, and it […]
They could have been very easy to overlook given the quantity of luminaries resting all around them, but a discerning visitor to the Calumet Farm cemetery in April made a point, at least for a […]
by Teresa Genaro For thirty years and more there was hardly a great race run in which one of their horses did not figure conspicuously. They were a city-bred pair, but they possessed an instinctive […]
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