The third filly to win the big race, The Marchioness was the first winner of a four-heat Hambletonian, the first winner with a female owner and the only one whose trainer and driver previously trained trotters for the Russian czar.
Read More
Italy
The definition of superiority
Hen was sacrificed to let his stablemate win the Hambletonian, then sold to Europe in anger. There he became arguably the most...
Read More
The first Hambo favorite
While Guy McKinney gained fame as the winner of the very first Hambletonian in 1926, he was not the early spring favorite. That...
Read More
The wedding gift
He was designated as a wedding gift to circumvent export restrictions after WWII, then caused despair when he refused to train...
Read More
The horse who wasn’t allowed to time trial
Having won the Hambletonian twice, in 1930 with Hanover’s Bertha and 1937 with Shirley Hanover, the Hanover Shoe...
Read More
Il Capitano
By many considered to be the best trotter in history, he was so popular that his name was even put forward as Foreign Minister of...
Read More
The horse God created
He set several world records, is one of few horses to beat Varenne fair and square and went on to become one of the best...
Read More