Sir Barton

Sir Barton was American horse racing's first Triple Crown winner

From ESPN's Jewels of the Triple Crown
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[Hollisterhorse]

carlykaiser, how do you get so much great action of horseracing. we should talk sometime, i am a very large horseracing fan. where do you get this stuff?? its amazing!

[carlykaiser]

Jewels of the Triple Crown, a DVD a friend sent me a long time ago. When the screen starts out black, then slowly you see the picture, is from the DVD

[liljkm12]

does sir barton have any kids at all

[cshaffer08]

One reason Sir Barton ran so often is because he was a lazy horse that liked to eat and didn't like to train. Also horses today take the drug Lasix which helps control them from bleeding in their lungs but severely dehydrates the horse and takes a couple of weeks to recover.Many horses use to run on a few days rest. Ross had a filly named Milkmaid who ran in the 1919 Preakness with Sir Barton and a few days later she ran in the first Pimlico Oaks and won. Oaks is now the Black-Eyed Susan.

[prowlifik]

daym talk about going down, you win the TC, you have your head handed to you by MOW, you fail at stud, and then your bred for 5-10 $ a cover, and buried under a plastic statue. wow

[theOlLineRebel]

@cshaffer08 Actually it was 2:17-2, not 2:15.

[theOlLineRebel]

@MelC1954

Not 14 days. Closer to 5 weeks total, as it still is. Except I think as many horses before the '70s, he ran in another major race between the Preakness/Belmont. MOW did the next year - Withers between Preakness and Belmont.

And Sir Barton WAS a top horse beyond the TC - he was much better. He wouldn't have been HOY if not - and he beat Exterminator and set records (matched by MOW). The horse was NOT bad.

[theOlLineRebel]

@red2138

Of course it's less risky. Where does it end? Having 6 months rest?

Regular horses had/have to work every day all the time. I see no big deal about running a horse every day. Before 1900, horses were frequently running every day or even - gasp - having to RUN OFF a DQ - i.e., running 2 races in a day (HINDOO).

[theOlLineRebel]

@LadyTwenties

The reason is genetics. HASTINGS was a nasty horse who really hated about all living things, and there is no "good reason" for that. Not every bad character is caused by "evil" humans - why on earth would they hate horses?

As for the photos - I don't know, but that conformation shot may be later retired photo. Don't accuse JKL Ross (who was MUCH younger than the late photo shown - i.e., photos out of context) of cruelty based on an undated photo.

[cshaffer08]

I want to correct several of the misstatements posted here. The first is about the photo showing his ribs. If you go to the race track you will often see the horses ribs when they are breathing hard. They are lean and athletic. The Triple Crown races were raced May 10th, May 14th and June 11th 1919. At the Belmont Sir Barton easily won running 2:15 2/5 seconds an American record. He also won the Withers Stakes 10 days after the Preakness.

[MelC1954]

He won the Triple Crown in 14 days. No wonder he was never the same again. Sad that he is best remembered for the match race and not all of his other accomplishments.

[red2138]

im sorry but i disagree its not ridiculous that they get good rest its smart and less risky for the horse. whats ridiculous is having only 3 days rest then racing again.