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Chapters: 1910 Racehorse Deaths, 1911 Racehorse Deaths, 1912 Racehorse Deaths, 1913 Racehorse Deaths, 1914 Racehorse Deaths, 1915 Racehorse Deaths, 1916 Racehorse Deaths, 1917 Racehorse Deaths, 1918 Racehorse Deaths, 1919 Racehorse Deaths, Bayardo, Ben Brush, Carbine, Pan Zareta, Hamburg, Roseben, Isinglass, Flying Fox, Kingston, Meddler, Star Shoot, Donau, Inferno, Henry of Navarre, Hastings, Rock Sand, Plaudit, Volodyovski, Worth, Riley, Joe Patchen, Nancy Hanks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bayardo was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse with an impressive record, both on the racecourse and at stud, where he was a leading sire. He was sired by Bay Ronald who won the Hardwicke Stakes and the City and Suburban Handicap. Bay Ronald sired Rondeau, who won nine stakes races, and was the dam of the influential stallion Teddy. He also sired Macdonald II, winner of the Prix Royal-Oak in France, and Dark Ronald, sire of Son-in-Law and Vaucluse, winner of the 1,000 Guineas. Bayardo's dam, Galicia, came from a good family which included having Blink Bonnie, as her fifth dam. Galicia was by Galopin and out of the Isonomy mare, Isoletta. She won the Biennial Stakes as a two-year-old, before injuring her pastern. Galicia raced as a three-year-old, but broke down in the Derby Cup and was retired for breeding. She produced four winners, of 42 races and 88,000, including Lemberg, who won the Dewhurst Stakes, Middle Park Stakes, the Epsom Derby, Eclipse Stakes, St. James's Palace Stakes, Jockey Club Stakes, and the Coronation Cup, finished second in the 2,000 Guineas, and third in the St. Leger Stakes. Bayardo was inbred to Galopin in the second and fourth generations (2x4) and to Sterling in the fourth generation (4x4). As a two-year-old, Cox sent Bay...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7118775