Pedigree Query

No one came up with the answer to the trivia challenge on September 9. The answer is Roamer, whose August 21, 1918, mile in 1:34-4/5 at Saratoga was the last official American time record to be set in an officially sanctioned time trial. While I've enjoyed providing the trivia challenge, I'm finding...

Krista was right on last week, identifying Landaluce as the filly known to European visitors to the USA as the "Wonder Filly of the West." A new trivia challenge is now ready and waiting! http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints

Frost correctly identified Edgar Prado as the jockey whose frustrating string of 41 Breeders' Cup losses came to an end when he won the 2005 Juvenile Fillies with Folklore. A new trivia challenge is now ready and waiting! http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints

Krista correctly identified champion Abel Tasman as the filly who lost her dam to complications of foaling, had to be resuscitated herself, and was raised by a nurse mare. A new trivia question is now ready and waiting! http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints

Glad you enjoyed the Presidential trivia, then! Looks like last week's question was a stumper. The mare who foaled two daughters who set world records at the same track is Caddie Griffith. Her daughter Calisse set a world record for 3-1/2 furlongs and her daughter Pan Zareta set a world record for 5...

Joanna McManus nailed last week's trivia question, identifying Dwight D. Eisenhower as the former president who made a trophy presentation at an American Triple Crown Race; this was at the 1961 Belmont Stakes, to Sherluck and jockey Braulio Baeza. To Baeza's surprise and delight, Eisenhower spoke in...

Krista zipped right in there with the answer to last week's trivia challenge, identifying City Zip as the last horse to sweep Saratoga's three big juvenile races (the Sanford Memorial, the Saratoga Special, and the Hopeful Stakes). A new trivia question is now ready and waiting! http://www.americanc...

Finally got a new trivia question posted: http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints

Looks like last week's question was a stumper. The great Citation won a total of 16 stakes races in 1948, the most in a single calendar year by any American racehorse, His runner-up in this category is Gallant Bob, who won 14 stakes races in 1975. Remember, I didn't specify that these races be conse...

Janet M. nailed last week's trivia question, identifying Distorted Humor as the horse who inherited an American freshman sire title after the horse who seemingly finished first (Elusive Quality) dropped to third because of disqualifications handed down against his son Elusive City on January 15 of t...

A new trivia question is (finally) up at http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints.

Krista got last week's trivia challenge by naming Scatter the Gold as the horse that took his only two wins in two-thirds of a North American Triple Crown series (in Canada, of course). Unfortunately, lightning took out my router on Friday and I've only just gotten back on-line, so another trivia qu...

A new weekend trivia question is now posted! http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints

Mea culpa for the lack of a trivia challenge celebrating the Belmont Stakes; I got caught up in continued work on the Black Gold manuscript and honestly forgot all about it. The 6/3/2022 question turned out to be a stumper as no one came up with 1901 Kentucky Oaks winner Lady Schorr, who was sent th...

Krista got there first with last week's trivia question, identifying Grecian Queen as the winner of the 1953 New Castle Handicap, the first US$100,000-added race restricted to fillies and mares. A new trivia question is now ready and waiting! http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hoofprints