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Teddy was sold to captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, godson of American Civil War Confederate president Jefferson Davis, for 5,400 francs.His racing career was limited partly due to World War I, which erupted when he was a yearling.
Prospect Point was bred in Kentucky by Forest Retreat Farms and Lloyd I. Miller. [2] He was sired by First Dawn, an unraced minor stallion bred by the great Ogden Phipps.His paternal granddam, Lovely Morning, was a half sister to American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horses and Grade I winners Successor and Bold Lad. [3]
Danzig (February 12, 1977 – January 4, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known as a leading sire. He was purchased for $310,000 (equivalent to $1.5 million in 2024) by Henryk de Kwiatkowski at the 1978 Saratoga Yearling Sale.
The Dosage Index is a mathematical figure used by breeders of Thoroughbred race horses, and sometimes by bettors handicapping horse races, to quantify a horse's ability, or inability, to negotiate the various distances at which horse races are run. It is calculated based on an analysis of the horse's pedigree.
In 1935, Discovery was the dominant horse in the United States, and one of the most notable things about him was his ability to carry great weight. Running under an average of 131 pounds, the four-year-old won eleven of nineteen races and has been retrospectively regarded as the U.S. Champion Handicap horse and Horse of the Year for 1935.
As a two-year-old in 1954, Nashua entered eight races, winning six and finishing second twice, which earned him champion 2-year-old honors. The following year he earned United States Horse of the Year awards from the Thoroughbred Racing Association (with 21 of the 40 votes), [1] and the publishers of Daily Racing Form. [2]
Because of her success as a broodmare, some believe that Weekend Surprise was a "double copy" mare, referring to a hypothetical "X-factor" (a gene or genes carried on the X-chromosome that can result in a large heart). When the "X-factor" is present on both sides of the pedigree, a mare is more likely to pass it on to her offspring.
Ruthless (1864–1876) was an American Thoroughbred filly and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame-inducted racehorse. She is best known as the winner of the inaugural Belmont Stakes . [ 1 ]
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