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11/10/2024

With Horse racing Legends – I just got recognized as one of their rising fans! 🎉

08/09/2024

15/06/2024

With Sham, Sigmund Sommer Stables, Frank "Pancho" Martin. – I just got recognized as one of their rising fans! 🎉

16/09/2023

These two 🥰

16/09/2023

Future Sommer/ Martin horse Tom Swift as a youngster with his Champion mother Shuvee.

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16/09/2023

This is a 1941 original photo showing Sculptor Herbert Haseltine making a model of Man o’ War from life.

He would use this sculpture to make the life-size bronze statue that graced Man o’ War’s grave which can now be found in the Kentucky Horse Park.

16/09/2023

RIBOT🇬🇧1952
(TENERANI - ROMANELLA BY EL GRECO)
B/ Dormello-Olgiata, Razza(GB) Feb 27, 1952.
O/ Lydia Tesio.
T/ Ugo Penco
16-16-0-0---$294,414
1954 champion 🏆 2yo C**t in Italy 🇮🇹.
1955 Champion 3yo in France 🇫🇷 and Italy 🇮🇹, Horse of the year.
1956 Champion older horse in England 🇬🇧 and Italy 🇮🇹 , Horse of the year.
Gran Criterium, Criterium Nazionale, Premio Trasmuschio, Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe (2), Premio del Jockey Club , Premio Emanuele Filiberto, Premio Pisa, Premio Besana, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S, Premio del Piazzale,Gran Premio di Milano, Premio Giulio Venino, Premio Vittuone, Premio Garbagnate.
Stood in England 🇬🇧 and Italy, Darby Dan Farm🇺🇸, Leading Sire in England 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪, Sired 428 foals, 237 winners,67 sw, Alice Frey, Art's and Letters, Ribocco, Filiberto, Graustark, His Majesty, Molvedo, Queen Sucree, Con Brio II, Blood Royal, Setters Bello, Tom Rolfe,Romulus.
Died Apr 28, 1972

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50 years ago, "Thoroughbred racing at its very best was presented to a crowd of 48,023 at Belmont Park," wrote Joe Nichols for the New York Times. "Secretariat, the splendid 3-year-old owned by the Meadow Stable, contributed a thrilling performance in taking the $250,000 Marlboro Cup in the world-record time of 1:45 2/5 for the 1 1/8 miles.... The showing of Secretariat was as dramatic and compelling as could be desired in any contest. For the formidable son of Bold Ruler opposed a top‐flight field of invited participants, including his stablemate, the 4‐year‐old Riva Ridge."

ICYMI, read Steve Haskin's account of how Secretariat recovered from an earlier illness to win the highly anticipated 1973 Marlboro Cup under the reins of Ron Turcotte: https://www.secretariat.com/askin-haskin/09/11/2023/big-red-bounces-back-in-the-marlboro-cup/

16/09/2023

This is an original 1941 photo of Perlette with Rocco Sisto up at Delaware Park.

She was owned and bred by James W. Parrish.

Perlette was by Percentage, the winner of the 1925 Cincinnati Trophy Stakes, out of Escarpolette by Fitz Herbert, the 1909 and 1910 Horse of the Year.

Escarpolette made 261 starts with 32 wins 34 seconds and 43 thirds earning: $37,286.

Perlette was a half sister:

to Alyssum: the winner of the 1931 Illinois Oaks;

to Howard: the winner of the 1935 Jockey Club Handicap;

to Momo: the dam of Momo Flag, the winner of the 1944 Exterminator Handicap.

Balancoire is the second dam of Perlette and the winner of the 1913 Prix la Fleche. She is considered a Reine-de-Course who is the second dam of Equipoise, the 1932 and 1933 Horse of the Year; the third dam of Seabiscuit; and the fourth dam of Determine, the winner of the 1954 Kentucky Derby.

Perlette made 87 starts with 18 wins 15 seconds 16 thirds earning: $16,775.

At two on August 20, 1936, Perlette set a new track record at Washington Park for five furlongs.

It doesn’t appear that she won any stakes races.

Her best progeny was:

My Recipe: winless in five starts. She was the dam of Intentionally, the 1959 Champion Sprinter.

Intentionally was the third Leading Sire in 1971; fourth in 1973; eighth in 1967 and tenth in 1969.

Intentionally sired: In Reality, the winner of the 1967 Florida Derby; Ta Wee, the 1969 and 1970 Champion Sprinter; Tentam, the winner of the 1973 Metropolitan Handicap; Shelter Bay, the winner of the 1970 Manhattan Handicap; and Red Reality, the winner of the 1972 Salvator Mile.

This is the family of: Great Above, the winner of the 1977 Toboggan Handicap; as well as Holy Bull, the 1994 Horse of the Year.

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