| The Thoroughbred Stud of H.P.
Whitney Esq. 1928
Softbound in morocco, edges quite worn, spine cover missing, back hinge started. Plate of Broomstick present, ribbon marker missing, internally very good. 286 pages, fully indexed. Nineteen stallions, 126 mares with 5 generation pedigree, stud record, performance and pedigree notes. " . . . H.P. Whitney is credited with breeding 192 stakes winners - still an all-time record, although E.P. Taylor was, at the end of 1976 on the 189 mark - most of which were foaled on his Kentucky farm . . . He also had the distinction of inflicting Man o' War's solitary defeat in the $249,465 Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga in 1919 with Upset, whose pedigree was typical of H.P. Whitney-breds of that era . . . 'Bloodstock', James Gill |