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Dark Star was a brown colt by the Australian sire *Royal Gem II, out of the Bull Dog mare, Isolde.
Dark Star was a brown colt by the Australian sire *Royal Gem II, out of the Bull Dog mare, Isolde.
Hill Gail, the winner of the 1952 Kentucky Derby, was the 5th of Calumet Farm’s 8 winners
1951 Count Turf was sired by Triple Crown winner, Count Fleet, becoming the third Derby winner in a three generation family tree.
Middleground was the second Kentucky Derby winner for owner Robert J. Kleberg’s King Ranch in Texas.
Ponder, the 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, owned and bred by Calumet Farms, was by 1944 Kentucky Derby winner Pensive, out of the Blenheim II mare, Miss Rushin.
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.
