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The last cemetery lot was sold in 1915, and a few burials took place as late as the 1990s. [1] Holy Rood Cemetery is owned by Georgetown University. In the 1980s, the university explored the possibility of disinterring the bodies buried there so the land could be put to other uses, but was blocked by a legal action brought by the remaining ...
Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, New York: Career wins: 2,313: Major racing wins; Bahamas Stakes (1965) Round Table Handicap (1970) Stars and Stripes Handicap (1971) Hempstead Handicap (1971) Carter Handicap (1972) Ladies Handicap (1972, 1977) Queens County Handicap (1972) Firenze Handicap (1973) Sanford Stakes (1973) Saratoga Special ...
Horse racing venues in Washington (state) (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 6 December 2024, at 05:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Pages in category "Burials at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
In 1977, Hirsch turned over training duties for King Ranch to his son, Bill. In 1982, Hirsch was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1982. He died at age 88 in 1997 at Bal Harbour, Florida, [4] and was buried next to his parents in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, Long Island, New York. [5]
A Hall of Fame inductee, Sarazen was the American Horse of the Year in 1924 and 1925. Max Hirsch won the first of his four Belmont Stakes in 1928 with Vito. In 1936, he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Bold Venture and in 1946 captured the U.S. Triple Crown with Bold Venture's son Assault.
Citation started the 1948 racing season with two victories over older horse Armed, who had been named Thoroughbred racing's 1947 Horse of the Year, in an allowance race and the Seminole Handicap. It is rare for a three-year-old to defeat older horses so early in the year, let alone a top handicap star such as Armed.
Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who became the tenth winner of the American Triple Crown (1977). He is one of only two horses to have won the Triple Crown while being undefeated in any previous race; the second was Justify who won the Triple Crown in 2018 and is descended from Seattle Slew.