Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in southeastern Louisiana. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road.
Fair Grounds Race Course, often known as New Orleans Fair Grounds, is a thoroughbred racetrack and racino in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company, LLC.
The Louisiana Derby is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Run in late March, the race is open to horses, age three, willing to race 1+3⁄16 miles on the dirt. It currently offers a purse of $1,000,000.
The Dinner Party Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the eighth-oldest graded stakes race in the United States and the oldest stakes race in Maryland and all of the Mid-Atlantic states. The race is open to horses age three and up and is run one and one-eighth miles on the turf. Currently a Grade II stakes race with a purse of $250,000, at one time the Dixie was a very important race that drew the top horses from across North America.
American Eclipse (1814–1847) was an undefeated American Thoroughbred racehorse, who raced when three- to four-mile heats were common.
Jean-Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785–1868), known as Bernard de Marigny, was a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, planter, politician, duelist, writer, horse breeder, land developer, and President of the Louisiana State Senate between 1822 and 1823.
Joseph Talamo is a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.
For the Greek statesman of this name, see Timoleon.
Union Course was a horse racing course in what is now Woodhaven, Queens, in New York City. It hosted some of the most famous horse races in American history, including the 1823 match between American Eclipse and Sir Henry. The track was located between what are now Jamaica Avenue on the north, Atlantic Avenue on the south, 78th Street on the west, and 85th Street on the east.
St. Giles was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from October 1831 to July 1835 he ran eleven times and won five races. After showing little form as a two-year-old, he made marked improvement to win his first three races of 1832, culminating with a highly-controversial success in The Derby. His only subsequent wins came in two minor races in 1835 and he was eventually sold and exported to stand as a stallion in the United States.
Young Eclipse was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1781 Epsom Derby. He raced until he was six years old, winning seven races and retiring to stud in 1785. He was not a successful sire.
Mango was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1837. He won nine of his thirteen races in a racing career which lasted from October 1836 until October 1838. Mango was well-beaten in his only race as a two-year-old and finished unplaced in The Derby but won three races at Royal Ascot in June. In September he won an exceptionally rough race for the St Leger at Doncaster Racecourse and then won the Newmarket equivalent a month later. Mango won twice in the following year, but became increasingly temperamental and difficult to manage. He was retired to stud at the end of 1838 but proved a failure as a sire.
Henry Augustine Tayloe of Oakley Plantation, Essex County, Virginia, later Gallion, Canebrake, Alabama, was an American planter, slaveholder, horse breeder and racer, and land speculator in the 19th century.
The Washington Jockey Club was an American association in Washington, D.C. devoted to horse racing, founded in 1797. The club established its first racecourse four blocks from the Executive Mansion where it extended from 17th and 20th Streets and extending across Pennsylvania Avenue into Lafayette Park, what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street, largely on the site of today’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The course was relocated in 1802 to the Holmead Farm two miles north of the Executive Mansion, to what is now Meridian Hill.
Leviathan (1823-1846) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 16 of 21 starts before injury prompted his retirement. Imported into Tennessee in 1830, he was the leading sire in North America of 1837, 1838, 1839, 1843 and 1848, and also finished second five times. He was also an important broodmare sire, with modern descendants through the female line including Affirmed, Alydar and Dance Smartly.
Leviathan was an American Thoroughbred racehorse considered one of the best horses of the late 1700s and early 1800s. He was also one of the first successful American geldings in racing history with almost every other great horse from that time period either being a stallion or a mare. He also holds the longest winning streak in American racing history winning 23 consecutive races from 1797 to 1801 with at-least 15 of these races being heat races meaning he won at least 38 consecutive heats.
Thomas B. Poindexter was an American slave trader and cotton planter. He had the highest net worth, US$350,000, of the 34 active resident slave traders indexed as such in the 1860 New Orleans census, ahead of Jonathan M. Wilson and Bernard Kendig.
The Bascombe Race Course is a former thoroughbred horseracing track in Mobile, Alabama, built in 1836 that hosted The Mobile Jockey Club.
The Mobile Jockey Club was an American sporting organization founded prior to 1836 in Mobile, Alabama.
The Louisiana Jockey Club was an American sporting association founded in 1837 with the completion of the Carrollton Race Course, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Today this is the only remaining Thoroughbred Race Course of the old-line tracks, the others which have closed are the Metairie Race Course, the Eclipse Race Course, and the Jackson Race Course; it exists today as the Fair Grounds Race Course, where races are still held-making it the 2nd oldest continuous racing track in operation in the United States, after the Freehold Raceway and before the Saratoga Race Course.
Eclipse Race Course Announcement The Mississippi Free Trader Tue Jan 17 1837
Eclipse Race Course Announcement The Mississippi Free Trader Tue Jan 17 1837
Eclipse Race Course Announcement The Mississippi Free Trader Tue Jan 17 1837
Eclipse Race Course Opening Announcement Jan 31, 1837, The Times Picayune
Results Spring Races Day 1, published 18 March 1837, the Eclipse Course, New Orleans
Eclipse Race Course Results, Day 2, Published The Times Picayune Sun Mar 19 1837
Eclipse Race Course Results, Day 2, Published The Times Picayune Sun Mar 19 1837
Eclipse Race Course Results, New Orleans, The Times Picayune, Published Wed Mar 22 1837
Eclipse Race Course New Orleans Fall Meeting 1838 The Mississippi Free Trader Wed Dec 19 1838
Eclipse Race Course New Orleans Fall Meeting 1838 The Mississippi Free Trader Wed Dec 19 1838
