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Bodemeister made the news when an unusual white-headed colt with splashed white markings was born on June 5, 2016, later named Southern Phantom. "In 35 years in the industry I've never seen a Thoroughbred like this," said trainer Eric Guillot. "The mare hasn't thrown anything unusual before, but Bodemeister throws a lot of white.
Charismatic was a chestnut horse with four white stockings on his legs and a white stripe on his forehead. He was bred under a foal-sharing arrangement between William S. Farish and the Parrish Hill Farm of Dr. Ben and Tom Roach. [2] His sire was Summer Squall, who had won the 1990 Preakness Stakes.
The 150th Kentucky Derby was all that and more as 156,710 people were on hand to watch Mystik Dan’s thrilling victory via a photo finish in the Run for the Roses on Saturday at Churchill Downs ...
Black Emblem later became dam of two stakes winners, Bright Emblem and Testament. [25] War Emblem's most successful offspring was Robe Tissage, who was the champion two-year-old filly in Japan in 2012. He also sired Group 3 winners King's Emblem and War Tactics, and stakes winners Civil War, Danon Programmer, and Clan Emblem. [24]
Ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, we look back at 10 Kentucky Derby winning horses with unique names we'll never forget.
As of 2008, the Churchill Downs media guide for the Derby still included the official chart showing Dancer's Image as the winner. [11] Legalized in 1974 by the Kentucky Racing Commission, [12] phenylbutazone was so commonly used by 1986 that thirteen of the sixteen entrants in that year's Kentucky Derby were running on the medication. [13]
Ben Ali (1883 - c.1903) was the winner of the 1886 Kentucky Derby and was named after his owner, James Ben Ali Haggin, a man of Turkish heritage who had struck gold in the California Gold Rush of 1849. [1]