Running Water (horse)

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Running Water
Sire Sir Dixon
GrandsireBillet
DamBreakwater
Damsire Hindoo
Sex Mare
Foaled1903
CountryUnited States
Colour Bay
Breeder Runnymede Stud
Owner1) Woodford Clay
2) Newcastle Stable
3) Herman B. Duryea
Trainer Thomas Welsh
Record47: 16-12-5
EarningsUS$53,565
Major wins
Great Filly Stakes (1905)
Distaff Stakes (1905)
Alabama Stakes (1906)
Edgemere Handicap (1906)
Ramapo Handicap (1906)
Second Special Stakes (1906)
Merchants and Citizens Handicap (1907)
Saratoga Cup (1907)
Awards
American Co-Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (1906)

Running Water (foaled 1903 at Runnymede Farm near Paris, Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racemare. [1]

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Breeding

Running Water was sired by the 1888 Belmont Stakes winner Sir Dixon who also sired 1905 Kentucky Derby winner Agile and the good filly, Blue Girl. Running Water's mare was Breakwater whose sire was Hindoo, a three-time U.S. Champion, the 1881 Kentucky Derby winner and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. [2]

Racing career

Owned and trained by Woodford Clay, he raced Running Water at age two and for most of her three-year-old season until selling her on August 8, 1906 to trainer Thomas Welsh and the Newcastle Stable, a racing and breeding partnership made up of Andrew Miller, Francis R. Bishop and Blair Painter. [3]

The American Co-Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1906, Running Water had a redoubtable career in Thoroughbred racing during which she won top races against the best competition including beating male opponents on a regular basis. In winning the Merchants and Citizens Handicap she set a new Saratoga Race Course track record while beating the highly touted John Madden-trained colt Dandelion as well as Preakness Stakes and Brooklyn Derby winner Cairngorm. [4] In the Saratoga Cup, run at a distance of a mile and three-quarters, she defeated the likes of Travers Stakes winner Frank Gill and Suburban Handicap winner Nealon. [5]

Broodmare in France

Due to the Hart–Agnew Law, racing was shut down in all of New York state in 1911 and 1912. As a result, in 1910 Running Water had to be sent to American Herman Duryea's Haras du Gazon stud farm in Bazoches-au-Houlme in France so she could be bred. Running Water's French-born offspring included Boyne, Breakwater, Mayflower, Pierre Qui Roule, Rappahannock, Reprise, Rochebelle, and Runlad. [6]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Running Water, bay mare, 1903
Sire
Sir Dixon
Billet Voltigeur Voltaire
Martha Lynn
CalcuttaFlatcatcher
Miss Martin
Jaconet Leamington Faugh-a-Ballagh
Pantaloon Mare
Maggie B BAustralian
Madeline
Dam
Breakwater
Hindoo Virgil Vandal
Hymenia
Florence Lexington
Weatherwitch
Ricochet Musket Toxophilite
West Australian mare
ErycinaSledmere
Atalanta (family: 2-c)

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References

  1. "Running Water's Successful Career". Daily Racing Form. 1908-07-26. Retrieved 2018-12-01 via University of Kentucky Archives.
  2. "Hindoo". Racingmuseum.org. 1955-01-01. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  3. "Woodford Clay Sells Running Water and Content". New York Times. 1906-08-09. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  4. "Running Water's New Track Mark". New York Times. 1907-08-21. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  5. "Saratoga Cup". Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York. 1907-08-25. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  6. "Running Water progeny". Pedigree Query. 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2018-11-30.