Broomspun

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Broomspun
Sire Broomstick
Grandsire Ben Brush
DamSun Glass
Damsire Rock Sand
Sex Stallion
Foaled1918
CountryUnited States
Colour Black
Breeder Harry Payne Whitney
Owner Harry Payne Whitney
Trainer James G. Rowe Sr.
Record24: 4-4-0
Earnings$88,440
Major wins
Triple Crown Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (1921)
Last updated on June 9, 2011

Broomspun (1918 - June 18, 1921) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, the son of Broomstick out of a Rock Sand mare, Sun Glass. [1]

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Broomspun is best known for winning the $43,000 1921 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 16, 1921, in front of a record-breaking crowd.

Two-year-old season

Broomspun broke his maiden at Aqueduct Racetrack in his second start in the summer of 1920 as a two-year-old. Later that summer, he won at a mile and an eighth in an allowance race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, in a very fast time. Broomspun did not win again over the next three months and was freshened for the winter.

Three-year-old season

Broomspun got a late start to his three-year-old season, making his sophomore debut in an allowance race at a mile and one eighth at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack. In that race, he ran second. Later that year, after the Derby runner did not return two weeks later in Baltimore, trainer James Rowe entered Broomspun in the second jewel of Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. In that race, four multiple stakes winners were assigned the high weight of 126 pounds. Broomspun, because of his lack of success, was given a weight allowance of 12 pounds and went to post carrying 114 pounds including his jockey, Frank Coltiletti. In 1921, the Preakness was the richest race held in North America. While $38,450 went to the winner of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness victor received $43,000. [2] A record 30,000 race fans were on hand, the most in the 48-year history of the race.

At the start of the race, several of the 14 starters were fractious or unruly as it took the starter eleven minutes to get the field settled. Broomspun broke from post position 7 in a forward position and stalked the leaders from fourth passing the stands for the first time at Pimlico Race Course. He sat just off leader Leonard II's flank going down the backstretch in 47.4 for the first half mile. On the final turn, Broomspun worked his way around on the outside and burst down the lane to take the lead by just over a length. In the final strides, he was ridden out hard by jockey Frank Coltiletti to hold for the win by three quarters of a length over a hard-charging filly named Polly Ann.

The headline in The Baltimore Sun the next day read, "From obscurity to fame, Broomspun jumped in less than two minutes in The Preakness Stakes. The 3-year-old son of Broomstick and Spun Giass, who is the property of Harry Payne Whitney, the New York City sportsman, won the Classic Preakness from a field of 14 strong competitors, the best three-year-olds in the country." Besides beating Polly Ann, Broomspun defeated Jeg, who held on for third, and Leonardo II and Tryster, who dead-heated for fourth. That win was owner Harry Payne Whitney's second of four in the Preakness Stakes.

While competing in the June 18, 1921 Carlton Stakes at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack, jockey Clarence Kummer felt Broomspun's leg give on his first stride at the start of the race and pulled him up after four furlongs. Broomspun was euthanized when it was determined he had broken his right foreleg at the shoulder. [3] [4]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Broomspun (USA), chestnut stallion, 1918 [1]
Sire
Broomstick (USA)
1901		 Ben Brush (USA)
1893		BrambleBonnie Scotland (GB)
Ivy Leaf
RosevilleReform
Albia
Elf (GB)
1893		 Galliard Galopin
Mavis
Sylvabelle Bend Or
St Editha
Dam
Spun Glass (USA)
1912		 Rock Sand (GB)
1900		 Sainfoin Springfield
Sanda
Roquebrune St Simon
St Marguerite
Handspun (USA)
1892		 Hanover Hindoo
Bourbon Belle
Spinaway Leamington (GB)
Megara (Family 11)

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References

  1. 1 2 "Broomspun pedigree". equineline.com. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
  2. ↑ Special to The New York Times. (1921-05-17). "RICH PREAKNESS IS WON BY BROOMSPUN" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
  3. ↑ "Sweep By Wins Hudson". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1921-06-19. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  4. ↑ "Aqueduct Form Chart". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1921-06-19. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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