1890s Racehorse Deaths - 1890 Racehorse Deaths, 1892 Racehorse Deaths, 1893 Racehorse Deaths, 1896 Racehorse Deaths, 1897 Racehorse Deaths (Paperback)

Chapters: 1890 Racehorse Deaths, 1892 Racehorse Deaths, 1893 Racehorse Deaths, 1896 Racehorse Deaths, 1897 Racehorse Deaths, 1898 Racehorse Deaths, 1899 Racehorse Deaths, Longfellow, Aristides, Yo Tambien, Miss Woodford, Iroquois, Galopin, Domino, Rayon D'or, Hanover, Doncaster, Leonatus, Hermit, Lookout, Day Star. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. 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: Longfellow (18671893) was one of America's first great Thoroughbred racehorses and the sire of great racehorses. A legend in his own time, he was out of the first crop of the outstanding imported English stallion Leamington. Longfellow was owned, bred, and trained by Uncle John Harper of Nantura Stock Farm in Midway, Kentucky. Uncle John was worth perhaps a million dollars (a very great sum in the 1850s), yet he lived in a simple cottage on his 1,000 acres (4 km ) adjacent to Robert A. Alexander's famed Woodburn Stud in Woodford County, Kentucky. In 1856, Uncle John stood both Lexington and Glencoe, two of the country's greatest stallions. Combined, they led America's sire lists for 24 years. Longfellow was sired by Leamington, the successor of Lexington, as noted: America's leading sire for 14 years. One of Leamington's best runners (out of John Harper's foundation mare Nantura by Brawner's Eclipse), Uncle John believed Longfellow was the very best horse he'd ever bred. A brown colt with a white stripe, a white near hind sock, and white on his off hind coronet, Longfellow was foaled in 1867. When people asked Harper, born in 1800, if he had named his colt for the noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Uncle John replied, "Never heared much of that feller but that colt of mine's got the longest legs of any feller I ever seen." At maturity, Longfellow stood 17 hands tall and was said to have a 26-foot ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=433282