1948 Animal Deaths - 1948 Racehorse Deaths, Reigh Count, Clyde Van Dusen, Twenty Grand, High Quest, Brown Jack (Paperback)

Chapters: 1948 Racehorse Deaths, Reigh Count, Clyde Van Dusen, Twenty Grand, High Quest, Brown Jack. 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: Reigh Count (1925-1948) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1928 Kentucky Derby and the 1929 Coronation Cup in England. Reigh Count was bred by Willis Sharpe Kilmer and born at Court Manor near New Market, Virginia. He compiled a Championship year at age two, when he won four of fourteen races. A controversial ending of the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park (the richest race in the United States at the time) possibly deprived him of another win. Just before the finish line, he held the lead. But due to either misjudgment of the finish line by his jockey or speculatively, the intentional instructions of his owner, his stablemate Anita Peabody won by the barest of margins. The next day's New York Times photo captured the jockeys, side-by-side, looking at each other at the wire. At age three, Reigh Count was the dominant horse in America, winning six races including the Kentucky Derby. Jockey Chick Lang's victory three years earlier in the Queen's Plate made him the only Canadian jockey in history to ever win the most prestigious race both in Canada and in the United States. An injury kept Reigh Count out of both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. However, later in the summer in the Lawrence Realization, he defeated Preakess winner Victorian. Later, he took on and defeated older horses in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, which had a field that included Chance Shot, Display, and Diavolo. Reigh Count's performances in 1928 earned him United States Horse of the Year honors. Shipped to race in England at age four, in June 1929 Reigh Count won the Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs then finished second in th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=738202