Colin (horse)
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| Colin | |
|---|---|
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| Sire | Commando |
| Grandsire | Domino |
| Dam | Pastorella |
| Damsire | Springfield |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1905 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Brown |
| Breeder | Castleton Stud |
| Owner | James R. Keene |
| Trainer | James G. Rowe Sr. |
| Record | 15:15–0–0 |
| Earnings | $180,912[1] |
| Major wins | |
| National Stallion Stakes (1907) Great Trial Stakes (1907) Champagne Stakes (1907) Brighton Junior Stakes (1907) Saratoga Special Stakes (1907) Grand Union Hotel Stakes (1907) Futurity Stakes (1907) Matron Stakes, colts' div. (1907) Flatbush Stakes (1907) Eclipse Stakes (1907) Produce Stakes colts' div. (1907) Withers Stakes (1908) Belmont Stakes (1908) Tidal Stakes (1908) | |
| Awards | |
| American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse (1907) American Horse of the Year (1907, 1908) American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse (1908) | |
| Honors | |
| United States Racing Hall of Fame (1956) #15 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century | |
| Last updated on 20 August 2009 | |
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Colin (1905 – 1932) was an undefeated champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won all his 15 races including the 1908 Belmont Stakes and was the 1907 and 1908 Horse of the Year as well as the 1907 Champion Two-Year-Old Male and 1908 Champion 3-Year-Old Male and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In 1907, he swept the major two-year-old stakes races including the Belmont Futurity and Champagne Stakes and was the consensus Horse of the Year. His three-year-old campaign was cut short by injury but he was still Horse of the Year based on his three wins including the Belmont Stakes. As a sire, he suffered from fertility problems but still sired multiple stakes winners.
Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, he was ranked number 15.
Background
[edit]Colin was a brown stallion with one white sock, one pastern, one partial fetlock, and a blaze and snip on his face. He was foaled in 1905 at Castleton Stud in Kentucky and was owned by London-born financier James R. Keene. Colin was from the third crop of foals by the stakes winner and leading sire Commando (by Domino), who had been bred by James Keene. Colin's dam was the English stakes-winning Pastorella (GB), by Springfield. She had been imported to the US by Marcus Daly and was purchased by Keene in 1901.
Racing career
[edit]Colin was trained by Hall of Fame inductee James G. Rowe Sr. Rowe had handled many top horses in his long career, including Sysonby, Hindoo (who was never unplaced), and the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby, Regret. Rowe and his horses Miss Woodford, Luke Blackburn, Whisk Broom II, Commando, and Peter Pan were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
James Keene was not initially enthusiastic about Colin, noting his disfiguring curb, or thoroughpin, meaning that the colt had an enlarged hock. He'd been just as disdainful of an earlier purchase: Colin's grandsire Domino, (another eventual Horse of the Year in 1893 and Hall of Famer), but his son, Foxhall Keene, bought Domino anyway.
A friend of Keene's, De Courcey Forbes, always named the Castleton foals. Colin was for "Poor Colin", a pastoral poem by the English poet laureate Nicholas Rowe, thus connecting the name of Colin's dam and the name of his trainer, who took a keen interest in his horses. A hands-on trainer, Rowe was famous for the personal attention he paid to his horses. He literally traveled in the same railroad car with them. Aware that Colin's swollen hock would give him trouble, Rowe attended to it with massages and cold water baths.
Consistently rated as one of the best horses in American racing history, and a celebrity with both fans and horsemen, Colin started fifteen times in his two-year career and never lost. Twelve of these races came when he was a two-year-old. In an age that valued stamina and maturity, Colin was still viewed with awe by the horsemen of his time. Sportswriter Abram Hewitt said, "The blood surges, and the pulses quicken at the very sight of such Olympians on the track." Hewitt had "listened to old-time horsemen talk about Colin with an other-world expression on their faces." Colin would earn National Champion honors as the American Horse of the Year for 1907 and 1908. He was also America's Champion Three-Year-Old Male in 1908.
Colin's last victory came on June 20, 1908 in the Tidal Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, after which he was sent to England to race, but was pulled up lame in a workout and was retired.[1]
| Date | Track | Race | Distance (Furlong) | Win Margin (lengths) | Chart comments | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-29-1907 | Belmont Park | Maiden Special | 5 | 2 | "Easily" | Straight course Track: good |
| 6-1-1907 | Belmont Park | National Stallion Stakes | 5 | 3 | "Never threatened" | Straight course New track record, :58 |
| 6-5-1907 | Belmont Park | Eclipse Stakes | 5 1⁄2 | head | "Under pressure, gamely" | Straight course Track: muddy |
| 6-29-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Great Trial Stakes | 6 | 2 | "Mild restraint" | Futurity course Track: slow |
| 6-27-1907 | Brighton Beach | Brighton Junior Stakes | 6 | 1 1⁄2 | "repelled stretch challenge" | |
| 8-10-1907 | Saratoga | Saratoga Special | 6 | 1 | "Decisively" | |
| 8-14-1907 | Saratoga | Grand Union Hotel Stakes | 6 | 2 | "Hard held" | |
| 8-31-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Futurity Stakes | 6 | 1 1⁄2 | "Blocked, as rider pleased" | Futurity course New stakes record: 1:111⁄5 |
| 9-7-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Flatbush Stakes | 7 | 3 | "Hard held" | Futurity course |
| 9-30-1907 | Brighton Beach | Produce Stakes | 6 | 5 | "Eased up" | Track: muddy vs. Fair Play |
| 10-7-1907 | Belmont Park | Matron Stakes | 6 | 3 | "Easing up" | Straight course vs. Fair Play |
| 10-16-1907 | Belmont Park | Champagne Stakes | 7 | 6 | "Drawing away" | Straight course |
| 5-23-1908 | Belmont Park | Withers Stakes | 8 | 2 | "Eased up" | Track: heavy vs. Fair Play |
| 5-30-1908 | Belmont Park | Belmont Stakes | 11 | head | "Eased up" | Track: sloppy vs. Fair Play Rainstorm, no time taken |
| 6-20-1908 | Sheepshead Bay | Tidal Stakes | 10 | 2 | "Bore out, tiring slightly" |
Stud record
[edit]Colin stood his first season in 1909 at Heath Stud, near Newmarket, England, for a fee of 98 guineas. He was neglected by the English breeders due to his American bloodlines. First in England, and then back in Kentucky after Keene died, Colin was plagued by infertility problems. In c. 1913, Colin was purchased for $30,000 by Wickliffe Stud, where he stood until the stud was dispersed in January 1918. Edward B. McLean then purchased the 13-year-old Colin for $5,100 to stand at his Belray Farm, near Middleburg, Virginia. He sired 11 stakes winners out of 81 foals in 23 seasons at stud, which translates into 14% of his get. His best galloper was Jock (1924 from Kathleen by *Sempronius; 17 wins and $95,255). His son Neddie was the paternal grandsire of Alsab. Another was On Watch, the broodmare sire Stymie.[2]
Colin died in 1932 at the age of twenty-seven on Belray Farm near Middleburg, Virginia. His lifetime earnings amounted to $180,912.
Kent Hollingsworth admired Colin's career as a racehorse and observed the horses' potential in his book, The Great Ones.[3] He said, "Great horses have been beaten by mischance, racing luck, injury and lesser horses running the race of their lives. None of these, however, took Colin. He was unbeatable."[4]
Honors
[edit]Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. In The Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #15. It was eighty years before another horse, Personal Ensign, retired unbeaten in America.
Sire line tree
[edit]Pedigree
[edit]| Sire Commando Bay 1898 | Domino Bay 1891 | Himyar | Alarm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hira | |||
| Mannie Gray | Enquirer | ||
| Lizzie G | |||
| Emma C Bay 1892 | Darebin | The Peer | |
| Lurline | |||
| Guenn | Flood | ||
| Glendew | |||
| Dam Pastorella Chestnut 1892 | Springfield Bay 1873 | St Albans | Stockwell |
| Bribery | |||
| Viridis | Marsyas | ||
| Maid of Palmyra | |||
| Griselda Gr. 1878 | Strathconan | Newminster | |
| Souvenir | |||
| Perseverance | Voltigeur | ||
| Spinster (Family: 19-b) |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Ahnert, Rainer L. (editor in chief), "Thoroughbred Breeding of the World", Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970.
- ^ Thoroughbred Heritage: Colin Retrieved on 2009-8-20.
- ^ "Robert Treadway: Kent Hollingsworth, the master storyteller of horse racing". KyForward.com. 2012-03-20. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ "Colin | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame". www.racingmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ Darley Arabian Line: Camel Branch
- ^ Jumpers: Darley Arabian Sire Line
- ^ Sire Line: Camel
- ^ The Dynasty of Domino
- ^ Portrait: Colin
- ^ Hall of Fame: Colin
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Colin
- ^ Portrait: On Watch
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: On Watch
- ^ Hall of Fame: Alsab
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Alsab
- America's Champion Three-Year-Old Males
- Colin's Hall of Fame page
- James Rowe's Hall of Fame page, with photos
External links
[edit]
- 1905 racehorse births
- 1932 racehorse deaths
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Horse racing track record setters
- American Champion racehorses
- American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year
- United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees
- Belmont Stakes winners
- Undefeated racehorses
- Thoroughbred family 19-b
| Colin | |
|---|---|
| |
| Sire | Commando |
| Grandsire | Domino |
| Dam | Pastorella |
| Damsire | Springfield |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1905 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Brown |
| Breeder | Castleton Stud |
| Owner | James R. Keene |
| Trainer | James G. Rowe Sr. |
| Record | 15:15–0–0 |
| Earnings | $180,912[1] |
| Major wins | |
| National Stallion Stakes (1907) Great Trial Stakes (1907) Champagne Stakes (1907) Brighton Junior Stakes (1907) Saratoga Special Stakes (1907) Grand Union Hotel Stakes (1907) Futurity Stakes (1907) Matron Stakes, colts' div. (1907) Flatbush Stakes (1907) Eclipse Stakes (1907) Produce Stakes colts' div. (1907) Withers Stakes (1908) Belmont Stakes (1908) Tidal Stakes (1908) | |
| Awards | |
| American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse (1907) American Horse of the Year (1907, 1908) American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse (1908) | |
| Honors | |
| United States Racing Hall of Fame (1956) #15 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century | |
| Last updated on 20 August 2009 | |
Colin (1905 – 1932) was an undefeated champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won all his 15 races including the 1908 Belmont Stakes and was the 1907 and 1908 Horse of the Year as well as the 1907 Champion Two-Year-Old Male and 1908 Champion 3-Year-Old Male and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In 1907, he swept the major two-year-old stakes races including the Belmont Futurity and Champagne Stakes and was the consensus Horse of the Year. His three-year-old campaign was cut short by injury but he was still Horse of the Year based on his three wins including the Belmont Stakes. As a sire, he suffered from fertility problems but still sired multiple stakes winners.
Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, he was ranked number 15.
Background
Colin was a brown stallion with one white sock, one pastern, one partial fetlock, and a blaze and snip on his face. He was foaled in 1905 at Castleton Stud in Kentucky and was owned by London-born financier James R. Keene. Colin was from the third crop of foals by the stakes winner and leading sire Commando (by Domino), who had been bred by James Keene. Colin's dam was the English stakes-winning Pastorella (GB), by Springfield. She had been imported to the US by Marcus Daly and was purchased by Keene in 1901.
Racing career
Colin was trained by Hall of Fame inductee James G. Rowe Sr. Rowe had handled many top horses in his long career, including Sysonby, Hindoo (who was never unplaced), and the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby, Regret. Rowe and his horses Miss Woodford, Luke Blackburn, Whisk Broom II, Commando, and Peter Pan were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
James Keene was not initially enthusiastic about Colin, noting his disfiguring curb, or thoroughpin, meaning that the colt had an enlarged hock. He'd been just as disdainful of an earlier purchase: Colin's grandsire Domino, (another eventual Horse of the Year in 1893 and Hall of Famer), but his son, Foxhall Keene, bought Domino anyway.
A friend of Keene's, De Courcey Forbes, always named the Castleton foals. Colin was for "Poor Colin", a pastoral poem by the English poet laureate Nicholas Rowe, thus connecting the name of Colin's dam and the name of his trainer, who took a keen interest in his horses. A hands-on trainer, Rowe was famous for the personal attention he paid to his horses. He literally traveled in the same railroad car with them. Aware that Colin's swollen hock would give him trouble, Rowe attended to it with massages and cold water baths.
Consistently rated as one of the best horses in American racing history, and a celebrity with both fans and horsemen, Colin started fifteen times in his two-year career and never lost. Twelve of these races came when he was a two-year-old. In an age that valued stamina and maturity, Colin was still viewed with awe by the horsemen of his time. Sportswriter Abram Hewitt said, "The blood surges, and the pulses quicken at the very sight of such Olympians on the track." Hewitt had "listened to old-time horsemen talk about Colin with an other-world expression on their faces." Colin would earn National Champion honors as the American Horse of the Year for 1907 and 1908. He was also America's Champion Three-Year-Old Male in 1908.
Colin's last victory came on June 20, 1908 in the Tidal Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, after which he was sent to England to race, but was pulled up lame in a workout and was retired.[1]
| Date | Track | Race | Distance (Furlong) | Win Margin (lengths) | Chart comments | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-29-1907 | Belmont Park | Maiden Special | 5 | 2 | "Easily" | Straight course Track: good |
| 6-1-1907 | Belmont Park | National Stallion Stakes | 5 | 3 | "Never threatened" | Straight course New track record, :58 |
| 6-5-1907 | Belmont Park | Eclipse Stakes | 5 1⁄2 | head | "Under pressure, gamely" | Straight course Track: muddy |
| 6-29-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Great Trial Stakes | 6 | 2 | "Mild restraint" | Futurity course Track: slow |
| 6-27-1907 | Brighton Beach | Brighton Junior Stakes | 6 | 1 1⁄2 | "repelled stretch challenge" | |
| 8-10-1907 | Saratoga | Saratoga Special | 6 | 1 | "Decisively" | |
| 8-14-1907 | Saratoga | Grand Union Hotel Stakes | 6 | 2 | "Hard held" | |
| 8-31-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Futurity Stakes | 6 | 1 1⁄2 | "Blocked, as rider pleased" | Futurity course New stakes record: 1:111⁄5 |
| 9-7-1907 | Sheepshead Bay | Flatbush Stakes | 7 | 3 | "Hard held" | Futurity course |
| 9-30-1907 | Brighton Beach | Produce Stakes | 6 | 5 | "Eased up" | Track: muddy vs. Fair Play |
| 10-7-1907 | Belmont Park | Matron Stakes | 6 | 3 | "Easing up" | Straight course vs. Fair Play |
| 10-16-1907 | Belmont Park | Champagne Stakes | 7 | 6 | "Drawing away" | Straight course |
| 5-23-1908 | Belmont Park | Withers Stakes | 8 | 2 | "Eased up" | Track: heavy vs. Fair Play |
| 5-30-1908 | Belmont Park | Belmont Stakes | 11 | head | "Eased up" | Track: sloppy vs. Fair Play Rainstorm, no time taken |
| 6-20-1908 | Sheepshead Bay | Tidal Stakes | 10 | 2 | "Bore out, tiring slightly" |
Stud record
Colin stood his first season in 1909 at Heath Stud, near Newmarket, England, for a fee of 98 guineas. He was neglected by the English breeders due to his American bloodlines. First in England, and then back in Kentucky after Keene died, Colin was plagued by infertility problems. In c. 1913, Colin was purchased for $30,000 by Wickliffe Stud, where he stood until the stud was dispersed in January 1918. Edward B. McLean then purchased the 13-year-old Colin for $5,100 to stand at his Belray Farm, near Middleburg, Virginia. He sired 11 stakes winners out of 81 foals in 23 seasons at stud, which translates into 14% of his get. His best galloper was Jock (1924 from Kathleen by *Sempronius; 17 wins and $95,255). His son Neddie was the paternal grandsire of Alsab. Another was On Watch, the broodmare sire Stymie.[2]
Colin died in 1932 at the age of twenty-seven on Belray Farm near Middleburg, Virginia. His lifetime earnings amounted to $180,912.
Kent Hollingsworth admired Colin's career as a racehorse and observed the horses' potential in his book, The Great Ones.[3] He said, "Great horses have been beaten by mischance, racing luck, injury and lesser horses running the race of their lives. None of these, however, took Colin. He was unbeatable."[4]
Honors
Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. In The Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #15. It was eighty years before another horse, Personal Ensign, retired unbeaten in America.
Sire line tree
- Colin[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Gentle Shepherd
- On Watch[12][13]
- Sortie
- Magic Hour
- Tick On
- Observant
- Time Clock
- Brazado
- Flash Burn
- Curandero
- Inclusive
- Sortie
- Jock
- Neddie
- Good Goods
- Alsab[14][15]
- Armageddon
- Subahdar
- Alsab[14][15]
- Nedayr
- Neds Flying
- Good Goods
Pedigree
| Sire Commando Bay 1898 | Domino Bay 1891 | Himyar | Alarm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hira | |||
| Mannie Gray | Enquirer | ||
| Lizzie G | |||
| Emma C Bay 1892 | Darebin | The Peer | |
| Lurline | |||
| Guenn | Flood | ||
| Glendew | |||
| Dam Pastorella Chestnut 1892 | Springfield Bay 1873 | St Albans | Stockwell |
| Bribery | |||
| Viridis | Marsyas | ||
| Maid of Palmyra | |||
| Griselda Gr. 1878 | Strathconan | Newminster | |
| Souvenir | |||
| Perseverance | Voltigeur | ||
| Spinster (Family: 19-b) |
See also
References
- ^ a b Ahnert, Rainer L. (editor in chief), "Thoroughbred Breeding of the World", Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970.
- ^ Thoroughbred Heritage: Colin Retrieved on 2009-8-20.
- ^ "Robert Treadway: Kent Hollingsworth, the master storyteller of horse racing". KyForward.com. 2012-03-20. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ "Colin | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame". www.racingmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ Darley Arabian Line: Camel Branch
- ^ Jumpers: Darley Arabian Sire Line
- ^ Sire Line: Camel
- ^ The Dynasty of Domino
- ^ Portrait: Colin
- ^ Hall of Fame: Colin
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Colin
- ^ Portrait: On Watch
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: On Watch
- ^ Hall of Fame: Alsab
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Alsab
- America's Champion Three-Year-Old Males
- Colin's Hall of Fame page
- James Rowe's Hall of Fame page, with photos
External links
- Colin Wins 1908 Belmont Stakes