Colin (horse)
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Last updated on 20 August 2009 |
Colin (1905 – 1932) was an undefeated champion
In 1907, he swept the major two-year-old stakes races including the
Colin was inducted into the
Pedigree
Colin was a
Racing career
Colin was trained by
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
A friend of Keene's, De Courcey Forbes, always named the Castleton foals. Colin was for "Poor Colin", a pastoral poem by the English
Consistently rated as one of the best horses in
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 | 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
Pedigree
Sire Commando Bay 1898 |
Domino Bay 1891 |
Himyar | Alarm |
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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. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ "Colin | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame". www.racingmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- America's Champion Three-Year-Old Males
- Colin's Hall of Fame page
- James Rowe's Hall of Fame page, with photos