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Flying Ebony

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Flying Ebony (1922–1943) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1925 Kentucky Derby. [1]

29 relations: Bay (horse), California, Carpet, Carter Handicap, Churchill Downs, Dark Secret (horse), Earl Sande, Flying Heels, France, Gifford A. Cochran, Haras du Quesnay, Havre de Grace, Maryland, Horse racing, Jockey Club Gold Cup, John E. Madden, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby Museum, Laurel Futurity Stakes, Lexington, Kentucky, Manhattan Handicap, New York City, Remsen Stakes, Santa Barbara, California, Stallion, The Finn, Thoroughbred, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), Wheatley Stable, William Kissam Vanderbilt.

Bay (horse)

Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown body color with a black mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carpet

A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing.

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Carter Handicap

The Carter Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early April at Aqueduct Racetrack.

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for annually hosting the Kentucky Derby.

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Dark Secret (horse)

Dark Secret (1929 – September 15, 1934) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Earl Sande

Earl Harold Sande (November 13, 1898 – August 19, 1968) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Flying Heels

Flying Heels (1927–1940) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse won stakes races at age two through six, including a number which are Grade I events today. Bred and raced by Gifford A. Cochran, he was sired by the 1925 Kentucky Derby winner, Flying Ebony and out of the racemare Heeltaps. Flying Heels was trained for Gifford Cochran by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Henry McDaniel, but Cochran died on December 5, 1930 and Flying Heels was sold by his Estate at a May 23, 1931 Fasig-Tipton dispersal sale to John J. Curtis who turned his training over to J. Simon Healy. Flying heels won seventeen of his forty-three lfetime starts and retired from racing with earnings of $123,435. He died in a barn fire in 1940.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gifford A. Cochran

Gifford A. Cochran (died 1930) was an American entrepreneur and sportsman from New York City.

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Haras du Quesnay

Haras du Quesnay, known as "Le Quesnay", is a thoroughbred horse breeding farm in France about four miles (6 km) outside the city of Deauville on 3 km².

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Havre de Grace, Maryland

Havre de Grace, abbreviated HdG, is a city in Harford County, Maryland, situated at the mouth of the Susquehanna River and the head of Chesapeake Bay.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Jockey Club Gold Cup

The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a thoroughbred flat race open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up.

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John E. Madden

John Edward Madden (1856–1929) was a prominent American Thoroughbred and Standardbred owner, breeder and trainer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Kentucky Derby Museum

The Kentucky Derby Museum is an American Thoroughbred horse racing museum located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Laurel Futurity Stakes

The Laurel Futurity is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in late November at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Manhattan Handicap

The Manhattan Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race raced annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Remsen Stakes

The Remsen Stakes is an American Grade II race for Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of November at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Spanish for "Saint Barbara") is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California.

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Stallion

A stallion is a male horse that has not been gelded (castrated).

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The Finn

The Finn (1912–1925) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best remembered as the winner of the 1915 Belmont Stakes and as the sire of Zev and Flying Ebony, the respective winners of the 1923 and 1925 Kentucky Derbies. The Finn was foaled in Lexington, Kentucky at Hamburg Place, the stud farm of John E. Madden. The Finn was sired by the imported British stallion Ogden, who was the 1896 Belmont Futurity Stakes winner, out of the mare Livonia by Star Shoot. The Finn was the sire of sixteen major stakes winners, including two Classic winning sons, Zev and Flying Ebony. He also sired Youthful Stakes winner Bud Lerner. The Finn died in September 1925 at the age of thirteen, siring 143 foals, none of which proved successful sires. His last successful tail-male descendant was the short-lived Puerto Rican racehorse Camarero, who set the record for the most consecutive victories (56) for a Thoroughbred racehorse in 1955.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)

In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a title awarded to a three-year-old Thoroughbred horse who wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

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Wheatley Stable

Wheatley Stable was the nom de course for the thoroughbred horse racing partnership formed by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden Livingston Mills.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Ebony

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