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Old 05-03-2012, 12:27 PM
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I very much enjoy racing history -- this is great stuff.

I found this in an article in the DRF archives -- here's the link (I hope)
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pagev....5;passterms=1

The piece is "Careers of Kentucky Derby Winners" and it was published in 1910.

"Apollo, the winner in 1882, was, like Vagrant, a gelding. He was always an honest running horse after his Derby race and captured some stakes and many purses for his owner, Green B. Morris. He broke down as a five-year-old and Morris presented him to a friend of his wife at Charleston, S.C., and the last that was heard of Apollo he was carrying his mistress over paths underneath the magnolia trees."

How pastoral!
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