1889 Racehorse Births - Yo Tambien, Azra, Tammany, Joe Patchen (Paperback)

Chapters: Yo Tambien, Azra, Tammany, Joe Patchen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yo Tambien (18891896), was an American Thoroughbred racing filly bred in California by Theodore Winters, a breeder and major landholder from the Washoe Valley in Nevada sometimes called "Black T" due to his huge black T-shaped moustache. Theodore Winters was one of the foremost horsemen who founded Thoroughbred racing and breeding in California. Like almost everyone, Winters had gone west because of the California Gold Rush. Once there, he made his money as a businessman and by dealing in gold mining stock. Besides owning a huge spread near the present town of Winters in Yolo County, California called Rancho del Arroyo, he also owned another California farm on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sacramento called Rancho del Rio. On Rancho del Rio, he kept his best stallion, Norfolk by the very great stallion, Lexington. Meanwhile, in the 1870s, the founder of California's first sporting paper, the "Breeder and Sportsman," Joseph Cairn Simpson, had also come west bringing a few horses with him. The best of them all was his own homebred Illinois mare called Marian. To help finance his newspaper venture, Simpson sold Marian to "Black T" Winters. (Simpson eventually organized the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association as well as becoming a founding member of the National Trotting Association.) For years, Winters bred Norfolk to Marian, and almost every one of their ten foals proved exceptional, two among them in particular, Emperor of Norfolk and El Rio Rey. But when Norfolk grew too old, Winters put Marian to a California-bred horse he owned called Joe Hooker, also a tail-line descendent of Lexington. Joe Hooker had, as well, the distinction of being a half-broth...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1511202