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Middleground was the second Kentucky Derby winner for owner Robert J. Kleberg’s King Ranch in Texas.
Middleground was the second Kentucky Derby winner for owner Robert J. Kleberg’s King Ranch in Texas.
Citation, the first horse to win $1 million dollars in purse money, was foaled on April 11, 1945 to the Hyperion mare *Hydroplane II.
Jet Pilot was a chestnut colt that was bred by Arthur B. Hancock with Mrs. R.A. VanClief.
Assault was one of my favorite stories when I was growing up, just how this plucky little horse managed to overcome such an awful injury while becoming one of the hallowed Triple Crown winners.
Hoop Jr., named after owner Fred W. Hooper’s son, Fred Jr., won the 1945 Kentucky Derby on the latest date that it’s ever been run.
Pensive became the second of eight Kentucky Derby winners to be bred and owned by Calumet Farm
80 Days!!! Johnstown was named after Johnstown, PA, a town that had undergone several major floods, the first being 1889.
81 Days!!! Lawrin, the only Kentucky Derby winner bred in Kansas, was sometimes called “The Kansas Seabiscuit”.
