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He is the offspring of an 1,800 pound percheron; Big John and a small 900 pound appaloosa mare; Apples. [2] Virgil was born and raised on the Dale Kling ranch in Grassy Butte, North Dakota . Kling gave the owner of the breeding stud Big John to John McNeely as payment for breeding fees, but later sold him as a two-year-old to Maury Tate at the ...
Appaloosa (2005) is a novel set in the American Old West written by Robert B. Parker. [1] A film of the same name based on the novel was released in 2008. [ 2 ] Parker published a sequel, Resolution , in June 2008, and a third novel featured the characters of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, Brimstone , in May 2009. [ 3 ]
Following Parker's death, the Spenser books were written by Ace Atkins (2012-2022) and Mike Lupica (2023-present); Jesse Stone by Michael Brandman (2011-2013), Reed Farrel Coleman (2014-2019) and Lupica (2020-2022); Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch by Robert Knott; and Sunny Randall by Lupica (2018-2020) and Alison Gaylin (2023).
In 1882, the small town of Appaloosa, New Mexico, is being terrorized by local rancher Randall Bragg, who killed the town's marshal, Jack Bell, and two deputies when they came to Bragg's ranch to arrest two men. The town hires lawman and peacekeeper Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch to protect and regain control of the town. The pair ...
Virgil was a direct descendant of the thoroughbred foundation sire Herod and was the leading sire in the United States in 1885. [1] Virgil was trained as a flat-racer, buggy racer and jumper. He had a total of 8 starts on the flat racing circuit, netting 6 wins. Virgil tended to run his best in races less than 1½ miles.
For example, at the 2007 Fall Yearling sale at Keeneland, 3,799 young horses sold for a total of $385,018,600, for an average of $101,347 per horse. [2] However, that average sales price reflected a variation that included at least 19 horses that sold for only $1,000 each and 34 that sold for over $1,000,000 apiece.
The list is not comprehensive for otherwise unnotable horses with fewer than ten wins. Horses such as Wheel of Fortune, Barbaro, Ruffian and Vanity (1812, either 10:9-0-0 or 12:11-0-0 [447]) sustained injury or broke down in their only defeat.
Owner; 2024 Idiomatic : 5 Brad H. Cox: Juddmonte Farms: 2023 Idiomatic : 4 Brad H. Cox: Juddmonte Farms: 2022 Malathaat: 4 Todd A. Pletcher: Shadwell Stable: 2021 Letruska: 5 Fausto Gutierrez St. George Stable: 2020 Monomoy Girl: 5 Brad H. Cox: Michael Dubb, Monomoy Stables, The Elkstone Group and Bethlehem Stables 2019 Midnight Bisou: 4 Steven ...