BeatTheChalk
06-04-2007, 06:52 PM
The best horse U never heard of !! He nevah lowst a race ..
Broke his maiden against 23 rivals at Belmont Park on May 29, 1907 going off as the 6/5 favorite.
National Stallion Stakes (racing just three days later, he broke the track record)
Eclipse Stakes (raced four days later with bucked shins and carrying 125 pounds in the pouring rain)
Great Trial Stakes (given 24 days rest, carrying 129 pounds, without extending himself)
Brighton Junior Stakes (beginning to be talked of as the "best two-year-old in history. His swollen hock was beginning to recede, but he began coughing, a very worrisome symptom.)
Saratoga Special Stakes (still coughing, and not looking well, but not about to stop Colin beating the unbeaten Uncle. His jockey, the eventual Hall of Famer Walter Miller said, "I could have gone away at any time. Even if loafing along, he can get into action quicker than any horse I have ever seen when it becomes necessary. Seems to me he can go right from a loafing gallop into his full racing speed in one stride," but he "never wants to do any more than he has to.")
Grand Union Hotel Stakes (four days later, without exertion and without a cough. Said the "The Thoroughbred Record," "Colin has become as much of a public idol at Saratoga as he was at Brighton Beach and
Sheepshead Bay and his defeat would have been looked upon as a public calamity.")
Futurity Stakes (50,000 showed up at Sheepshead Bay to watch. Colin was "the absolute master of the situation," in stakes-record time of 1:11⅕ for the straight six furlongs.)
Flatbush Stakes (although promised time off and a rest, Colin raced one week later, winning by three lengths)
Brighton Produce (about this and the Matron Stakes, "The Thoroughbred Record" exclaimed, "The more one sees of him, the more firm is the conviction that he is the best horse ever bred in America or ever raced here.")
Matron Stakes (Colt's Division, beating Fair Play)
Champagne Stakes (by six lengths, beating the only filly to show up, Stamina. Colin was mobbed in the paddock by fans. "The Thoroughbred Record" was overcome by his dominance. He also established a new American record of 1:23 for the distance on a straightaway.)
Winning at Three
Withers Stakes - with regular jockey Walter Miller increasingly having difficulty making weight, a new jockey and another eventual Hall of Famer, Joe Notter rode him to victory.
Belmont Stakes. (Not timed because of heavy rain; Colin ran lame in the fog over the objections of Rowe, and thanks to the keeness of Keene. Again, he beat a very game Fair Play. It was close but it was Colin's, even though many said Notter misjudged the finish line.)
Tidal Stakes (a political statement by Keene, claiming Colin would fill the stands even though New York had recently banned gambling. They came out to see him, though not exactly filling the stands.)
Broke his maiden against 23 rivals at Belmont Park on May 29, 1907 going off as the 6/5 favorite.
National Stallion Stakes (racing just three days later, he broke the track record)
Eclipse Stakes (raced four days later with bucked shins and carrying 125 pounds in the pouring rain)
Great Trial Stakes (given 24 days rest, carrying 129 pounds, without extending himself)
Brighton Junior Stakes (beginning to be talked of as the "best two-year-old in history. His swollen hock was beginning to recede, but he began coughing, a very worrisome symptom.)
Saratoga Special Stakes (still coughing, and not looking well, but not about to stop Colin beating the unbeaten Uncle. His jockey, the eventual Hall of Famer Walter Miller said, "I could have gone away at any time. Even if loafing along, he can get into action quicker than any horse I have ever seen when it becomes necessary. Seems to me he can go right from a loafing gallop into his full racing speed in one stride," but he "never wants to do any more than he has to.")
Grand Union Hotel Stakes (four days later, without exertion and without a cough. Said the "The Thoroughbred Record," "Colin has become as much of a public idol at Saratoga as he was at Brighton Beach and
Sheepshead Bay and his defeat would have been looked upon as a public calamity.")
Futurity Stakes (50,000 showed up at Sheepshead Bay to watch. Colin was "the absolute master of the situation," in stakes-record time of 1:11⅕ for the straight six furlongs.)
Flatbush Stakes (although promised time off and a rest, Colin raced one week later, winning by three lengths)
Brighton Produce (about this and the Matron Stakes, "The Thoroughbred Record" exclaimed, "The more one sees of him, the more firm is the conviction that he is the best horse ever bred in America or ever raced here.")
Matron Stakes (Colt's Division, beating Fair Play)
Champagne Stakes (by six lengths, beating the only filly to show up, Stamina. Colin was mobbed in the paddock by fans. "The Thoroughbred Record" was overcome by his dominance. He also established a new American record of 1:23 for the distance on a straightaway.)
Winning at Three
Withers Stakes - with regular jockey Walter Miller increasingly having difficulty making weight, a new jockey and another eventual Hall of Famer, Joe Notter rode him to victory.
Belmont Stakes. (Not timed because of heavy rain; Colin ran lame in the fog over the objections of Rowe, and thanks to the keeness of Keene. Again, he beat a very game Fair Play. It was close but it was Colin's, even though many said Notter misjudged the finish line.)
Tidal Stakes (a political statement by Keene, claiming Colin would fill the stands even though New York had recently banned gambling. They came out to see him, though not exactly filling the stands.)