Luke Blackburn Horse Pedigree

Owner: S. L. Wartzfelder, Capt. Jim Williams, Dwyer Brothers
Breeder: James Franklin and A. C. Franklin
State Bred: TN
Winnings: 39 Starts: 25 - 6 - 2, $49,460

1879 (US): 13 3-6-1/$1985 (2 for 13 for Wartzfelder
won Breeze Purse (Brighton Beach), Ocean Stk (Brighton Beach dash)
2nd Hotel Stk (MO dash), Grand Pacific Hotel Stk (IL dash), Windsor Hotel Stk (Saratoga; to GRENADA), Alexander Stk (Louisville dash)
3RD Day Boat Line Stk (Saratoga dash)
Scratched from 2YO Railroad Stk (MI), along with 2 other horses, because objection to winner AARON's age was overruled.

1880: (22 for 24 for Wartzfelder) Won Grand Union Prize

Described by writers of his period as the most muscular horse ever seen in America. Stood 15.1-1/4hh. He was injured in his final start at 3 and raced only twice at 4, after which he was retired to Gen. William Hicks Jackson's Belle Meade Stud near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1904, at 27, he suffered the indignity of being sold for $20 at auction to W. H. Allison. He died that year.

HOF inductee, 1956.

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