1905 in Horse Racing - 1905 Racehorse Births, 1905 Racehorse Deaths, Colin, Dark Ronald, Signorinetta, Royal Tourist, King James, Himyar (Paperback)

Chapters: 1905 Racehorse Births, 1905 Racehorse Deaths, Colin, Dark Ronald, Signorinetta, Royal Tourist, King James, Himyar, Fair Play, Commando, Stone Street. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. 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: Colin (foaled 1905) was one of America's greatest Thoroughbred racehorses. He retired undefeated after 15 starts and as a sire appears in the pedigree of the champion racehorse, Alsab. He was a brown colt with three white socks, a stripe and snip on his face, foaled in 1905 at Castleton Stud in Kentucky, owned by London born financier, James R. Keene. Colin was from the third crop of foals by the stakes-winning and leading sire, Commando (by Domino), who had been bred by James Keene. Colin's dam was the English stakes-winning Pastorella (GB), by Springfield. Colin was trained by Hall of Fame inductee, James G. Rowe, Sr. Rowe had handled many top quality horses in his long career, including Sysonby, Hindoo (who was never unplaced), and the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby, Regret. Rowe and his horses, Miss Woodford, Luke Blackburn, Whisk Broom II, Commando, Peter Pan were inducted into the Hall of Fame. James Keene, was not keen on Colin, noting the disfiguring curb, or thoroughpin, meaning that Colin had an enlarged hock. He'd been just as disdainful of an earlier purchase: Colin's grandsire Domino, (another eventual Horse of the Year in 1893 and Hall of Famer), but his son, Foxwell Keene, went ahead and bought Domino anyway. A friend of Keene's, De Courcey Forbes, always named the Castleton foals. Colin was for "Poor Colin," a pastoral poem by the English poet laureate Nicholas Rowe, thus neatly connecting the name of Colin's dam and the name of his trainer, a trainer who took a keen interest in his horses. A hands-on trainer, Rowe was famous for th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=224172