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Dan Patch was a mahogany bay Standardbred stallion bred by Daniel (Dan) Messner Jr., a prosperous dry goods merchant from Oxford, Indiana.In late 1894, Messner purchased a three-year-old filly named Zelica for $255 (equal to $8,980 today), planning to use her as a buggy horse.
Rosalind was a champion trotting mare who won the 1936 Hambletonian Stakes, set two world records (an individual filly-and-mare record of 1:56¾ in 1938 and a 1939 team mark of 1:58¼ with Greyhound) and was elected to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1973.
It houses artwork by famous equine artists and racing memorabilia dating back to the start of trotting. Exhibits include more than 1,700 paintings, lithographs and sculptures, 19,300 photographs, hundreds of drivers' uniforms, 75 sulkies , 59 sulkies, and seven carts, and a preserved stable, which serves as a walk-through display case for ...
Goldsmith Maid: famous harness racing mare of the 19th century [3] Good Magic: winner of the 2017 Breeders Cup: Juvenile, the 2018 Blue Grass Stakes and the 2018 Haskell Stakes; Grass Wonder: Winner of the 1999 Takarazuka and Arima Kinen; sired Screen Hero and Earnestly; Greyhound: named Trotting Horse of the Century in the US
Bayadère is a daughter of The Norfolk Phœnomenon who had sired other trotting horses including Électeur and Yelva. [3] [28] Bayadère's dam (who was also named Bayadère [29]) ran in trotting races, and had been blinded in one eye by a whip. [8] [14] She died after giving birth to Bayadère, her only offspring. [14]
Victory Song had set the harness racing record for stallions with a time of 1:57.6 in the mile. E. Roland Harriman, president of the Trotting Horse Club of America, announced the award and indicated that the enthusiasm shown for the honor led to the decision to make the "Harness Horse of the Year" an annual event. [1]
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It is the most famous Russian horse. The breed was developed in Russia in the late 18th century by Count Alexei Orlov at his Khrenovskoy stud farm near the town of Bobrov ( Voronezh Guberniya ). The Orlovs emerged as the result of crossing various European mares (primarily of English, Dutch, Mecklenburg , and Danish breeding) with Arabian ...