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Joe Daniels (1869–1896) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion who won the sixth Belmont Stakes in 1872. Bred in Kentucky, Joe Daniels won two stakes races as a two-year-old and then the Belmont as a three-year-old when he also won a number of other stakes races, and some match races in California. As a four-year-old, he won one further stakes race before retiring with a record of 29 starts for 16 wins. He sired two stakes-winning horses during his breeding career.
But Why Not was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. The daughter of Blue Larkspur and granddaughter of Black Servant is probably best remembered for wins in the Alabama Stakes, the Acorn Stakes, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. In 1947, she was voted by the country's top sports writers as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
The Champlain Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and older first run in 1901 at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Placed on hiatus in 1945, it was revived in 1954 at Jamaica Racetrack as a sprint race restricted to fillies and mares. The race was discontinued after the 1957 running.
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- ↑ "Alabama Stakes". NYRA. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ↑ "Saratoga – The Races". Wheeling Daily Register. West Virginia. 1872-07-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Penalties in the New York Bills". Daily Racing Form. 1908-01-18. Retrieved 2018-10-26– via University of Kentucky Archives.
- ↑ "Race Track Bill Defeated In Senate; Measure Modifying Directors' Liability for Gambling Fails of Passage". The New York Times. July 14, 1911. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ↑ "G.D. Widener's Stefanita Captures $17,425 Alabama Stakes at Belmont". New York Times. 1943-08-05. Section Sports, page 20. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ "Horse Racing: Go for Wand's legacy lives on". The Saratogian . 1990-08-21. Retrieved 2020-04-15.