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  Equine Heroes: Exterminator
Exterminator grew very fast, and at age two was already 16.3 hands, very tall and a little awkward sometimes.
Exterminator hadn't had a race since he was two years old.
Exterminator was in the back of the pack until they neared the turn for home.
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 Horse of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing.
It has been awarded since 1887 to the horse, irrespective of age, whose performance during the racing year is deemed the most outstanding.
Omaha is the only Triple Crown winner not to be voted Horse of the Year.
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 Articles - Exterminator (horse)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Exterminator (1915 - September 26, 1945) was an American thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby and in 1922 won Eclipse Award as Horse of the Year.
Exterminator began racing in 1917 as a two-year-old and would retire at age nine after the 1924 racing season having competed in 100 races, winning 50, finishing second and third, 17 times each.
In 1957, Exterminator was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and in The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #29.
www.mafox.com /articles/Exterminator_%28racehorse%29   (124 words)

  
 Book Review - Exterminator: Thoroughbred Legends 18
Exterminator was as good and as tough as they came.
The idea of Exterminator lugging 134 pounds over 2 1/4 miles (in the 1920 Ontario Jockey Club Cup at Woodbine) and winning is mind-boggling," in an age where "modern trainers complain when their top 4-year-olds have to carry 124 pounds and concede 5 pounds" to the opposition.
Exterminator passed away on September 26, 1945, and he was buried at a pet cemetery in Binghamton, New York, sharing the granite monument with his stablemate, Sun Briar.
www.horse-races.net /library/review-100302.htm   (861 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The horse became known as the Byerley Turk and was the first of the three foundation stallions to come to Britain.
The horse Matchem foaled in 1748 was the grandson of the Godolphin Arabian.
The horse Snap was compared to the gentle Matchem: "Snap for speed and Matchem for truth and daylight." (Snap was a grandson of the Darley Arabian.) When we consider Matchem's blood heirs, we find many even-tempered yet fast horses.
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 In Derby history, three is magic number - Horse Racing - MSNBC.com
Horses who have tried to win the Derby with fewer prep races have lost in 55 of 56 tries since 1949.
Trainers of the past would have disdained the concept of running horses "fresh." They believed horses had to run hard, train hard and run often to be fit for a demanding race such as the Derby.
A horse should have raced at least three times as a 3-year-old and at least five times in his career.
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 American Horse Betting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Horse of great power, start his star life in 1919, at Belmont Park, winning by 6 lengths.
Born in 1970, this horse had a "come from behind" way of running and was elected three times the Eclipse Horse of the Year.
Exterminator was a slim, bony, lanky castrated male horse that made his debut in a six-furlong maiden race in June 30, 1917.
www.americahorsebetting.com /horse_world.html   (317 words)

  
 A Horse of Course - Equiworld Magazine October 2002
Maybe that is why she visits with the fl horses and generally ignores the others.
Exterminator, affectionately known as "Old Bones," was one of the greatest race horses of all time.
The horse and pony were such great friends that when the pony died, Exterminator, then 30 years old, just gave up and died within days.
www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/1002/ahorseofcourse1.htm   (745 words)

  
 National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
With the nickname "Old Bones" one might not expect a horse with the durability of Exterminator, but he was a horse that lasted.
Exterminator retired in 1924 and died at Sun Briar Court in upstate New York in 1945.
Exterminator was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1957.
www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=67   (290 words)

  
 Eclipse Press
Exterminator was one of horse racing’s first superstars.
Exterminator had been the workmate of stable star Sun Briar, who ended up unable to run in that Derby.
Remarkable to the last, Exterminator died at the age of 30 in 1945.
www.eclipsepress.com /legends/B11-2018.html   (188 words)

  
 George Glazer Gallery - Voss Exterminator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
According to the caption, the print is “[a]fter the painting of Exterminator as a seven year old in the Colln.
There he received a thorough grounding in anatomy, an interest that is evident in the naturalistic portrayal of both horses and humans.
Socially well-connected, he completed more than 500 commissions of race horses, hunting horses and equestrian scenes in the period between 1920 and 1950, including portraits of famed racehorses Man O' War and Citation and numerous paintings for members of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families.
www.georgeglazer.com /archives/prints/sports/equestrian/exterminat.html   (270 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Empire Maker is the one to beat
Though the highly respected trainer Bobby Frankel had unabashedly touted the horse as a superstar-in-making, it was impossible to ignore the glaring fact that Empire Maker had done next to nothing on the racetrack.
This was a horse with immense potential and it was only a matter of time until it came out.
Not only must a horse be bred to have championship ability but he must be able to handle the unique rigors of a mile and a quarter race that comes early in a horse's career.
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 Thoroughbred Champions -- Championing the Horse & the Sport
Exterminator started 15 times as a three-year-old, winning seven races and $36,147 -- a tidy sum considering he picked up only $1,350 the year before.
Old Bones, as Exterminator became affectionately known, won races for nine different trainers during his career, thanks to owner Kilmer who was always hiring and firing.
One of Exterminator's idiosyncasies which began during his racing days and continued until his death was a great love for Shetland ponies.
www.thoroughbredchampions.com /biographies/exterminator.htm   (1976 words)

  
 Exterminator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Exterminator grew very fast, and at age two.....his Derby hopeful Sun Briar in workouts.
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 Exterminator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects).
"Exterminator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
"Exterminator" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
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 Exterminator
He won the 2-mile Autumn Gold Cup at Belmont Park twice and his time of 3:21 4/5 for that distance was and American record.
of the handicap division --in which a horse is penalized for winning by being assigned higher weights in subsequent races --
Exterminator and I would like to share a delightful letter with you.
www.secondrunning.com /Exterminator.htm   (339 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Triple Crown 2001 - What will Saturday bring for Baffert?
The odds may still be against him as he is a lightly raced horse trying to buck historical trends.
He would become the first horse since Exterminator in 1918 to win the Derby with four lifetime starts or fewer coming in.
They will celebrate the horse that wins the Kentucky Derby and that's the way that it should be.
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 NPR : The Funny Thing About Funny Cide
It's been 25 years since a horse won all three of the horse racing world's top events.
Most horses who compete successfully in horse racing's premiere events are soon put out to stud in multi-million dollar syndication deals that dwarf the prize money won at the racing events themselves, Conley tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer.
Conley says gelding a horse can also improve the animal's chances of winning the hearts and minds of horse racing fans.
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Warfield raced horses as early as 1805 and was breeding blood horses by 1806.
Instead, he talked to his horse and was seemingly able to persuade the horse to win for him.
He rode above the horse's withers, giving him the advantages of a better balanced horse, less wind-resistance, and the use of the whip instead of the spurs.
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 Selected Reines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
There are simply horses; horses of different capabilities and different chracters, horses with different requirements.
A horse of tremendous pedigree strength, Tracery was 3 x 3 to full siblings St. Simon and Angelica, and his second dam, Plaisanterie, gave us the fascinating presence of her sire, Wellingtonia.
As a matter of fact, the majority of her important relations are rather quick horses, especially via her tail-female kin Marquetry, who has sired two winners of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Artax and Squirtle Squirt.
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 American Horse Publications | Assault, Latest in Eclipse Press Thoroughbred Legends Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A lifelong horse enthusiast, Boyd has written about Thoroughbred racehorses in The Thoroughbred Record, Turf and Sport Digest, The Backstretch, and The Blood-Horse.
In addition to Assault, Boyd is the author of Native Dancer and Exterminator, also in the Thoroughbred Legends series, and two books on the American West.
The Blood-Horse, The Horse, Eclipse Press, Exclusively Equine, and TBH MarketWatch are registered trademarks of Blood-Horse Publications.
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 Index to Comic Art Collection: "Expulsion" to "Ex-Yougoslavie"
The yacht blew up and she drifted to shore to be found by an Anchorite, who got drunk and tried to rape her.
Exterminator 17 / Bilal, Dionnet ; pa Dansk ved Freddy Milton.
He dies and is resurrected on the battlefield in the body of Exterminator 17.
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 Favorite children's horse books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was about a girl who sees a skinny horse at the pound (because we all know neglected horses get sent to the pound!) and sneaks it out.
She and a friend clear out an old, unused barn on the neighbor's overgrown property and keep the horse there, pulling out handfuls of long grass and drying it into hay to feed him...
That was the nickname given to Exterminator - the skinny ugly racehorse that won the Derby.
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 Famous Race Horses
If a horse you like isn't listed here and also doean't appear on any of the multi-horse sites listed below, that probably means nobody has done a website for him/her.
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame - bios and photos of Canadian champions and hall of famers, many entries here are not on other sites.
Famous Horses from the UK - Steve Parrott's home page with a large number of very nice tribute pages to famous European (mostly UK) horses, both flat and jumps.
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 Deanna Ramsay, Bookseller - Used & Rare Books on Horses
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Among them is 'Saga of the Trakehner Horses' which gives a short but interesting history of the breed, an article on poisonous pasture plants, a number of short stories, and quite a few Thelwell illustrations.
History of the development of riding from the domestication of the horse, through its use as a means of transportation and communication, especially in war; to its present international popularity as a sport.
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 Breed Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Beloved under the nickname "Old Bones," Exterminator originally was purchased as a workman for Sun Briar, but wound up defeating the other horse in the 1918 Kentucky Derby.
Exterminator is buried on the Kilmer farm, near Binghamton, New York, beside his constant companion, the pony Peanuts II, and near his old stablemate, Sun Briar.
He was the horse no one wanted; passing from owner to owner until Sam Rubin; a man who knew nothing about horses; purchased him for $25;000.
www.jarvisinsurance.com /breedspotlight/breedPart2.html   (3022 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Exterminator : Thoroughbred Legends (Thoroughbred Legends, No. 18): Books: Eva Jolene Boyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The rangy gelding went from work horse to Kentucky Derby winner to durable campaigner during his eight years on the track.
It's not often that a really special horse comes along.
This is a must read about a gelding that had it all and then some.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581500874?v=glance   (498 words)

  
 Exterminator (book)
Exterminator captured the public's imagination from the start.
Known as "Old Bones," the gelding went from workhorse to Kentucky Derby winner to durable campaigner during his eight years on the track.
No material may be reproduced or republished without written permission of The Russell Meerdink Co., Ltd.
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