1918 in Horse Racing - 1918 Racehorse Births, 1918 Racehorse Deaths, Ben Brush, Grey Lag, Pan Zareta, Roseben, Ksar, Behave Yourself, Night Raid (Paperback)

Chapters: 1918 Racehorse Births, 1918 Racehorse Deaths, Ben Brush, Grey Lag, Pan Zareta, Roseben, Ksar, Behave Yourself, Night Raid. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. 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: Ben Brush (18931918) was a high class Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won the Kentucky Derby. He was bay stallion by Bramble (1879 champion handicap horse) his dam Roseville (a sister to Azra, the 1892 Kentucky Derby and Travers Stakes winner) by Reform. Ben Brush was bred by Clai and Woodford. Walter Vosburgh, the legendary turf authority, said Bramble was "a breed as tough as pine nuts." On May 6, 1896, Bramble and Roseville's son Ben Brush was the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby at its modern distance of 11/4 miles. (Since its inception in 1875, the Derby had been staged over 11/2 miles, the length of the original Derby at Epsom Downs in England.) It was the 22nd running of the Derby and the first to drape a blanket of white and pink roses over the shoulders of the victor. Ben's dam Roseville was purchased by Colonel Catesby Woodford and Colonel Ezekial Clay of Runnymede Farm near Paris, Kentucky in 1891 from the horseman H. Eugene Leigh. At the time she was in foal to Leigh's La Belle Stud stallion, Bramble. When the resulting colt was offered for sale by Clay and Woodford, Leigh and his new partner, the African-American Hall of Famer Ed Brown, bought him for $1,200. Brown named him Ben Brush in honor of the superintendent of the old Gravesend Race Track at Sheepshead Bay in Gravesend on Coney Island, New York who'd allowed them scarce, therefore valuable, stall space. The original Ben Brush was a strict disciplinarian, but ever after, Leigh and Brown found him very lenient when it came to his namesake. When others complained of his double standard, the human Brush said, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=54