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Alan-a-Dale (horse)

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Alan-a-Dale
Jimmy Winkfield aboard Alan-a-Dale, 1902
SireHalma
GrandsireHanover
DamSudie McNairy
DamsireEnquirer
SexStallion
Foaled1899
CountryUnited States
ColourChestnut
BreederThomas Clay McDowell
OwnerThomas Clay McDowell
TrainerThomas Clay McDowell
Record37: 17-7-1
Earnings$25,195
Major wins
Brighton Junior Stakes (1901)
Oakwood Handicap (1903)
American Classics wins:
Kentucky Derby (1902)
Last updated on April 12, 2010

Alan-a-Dale (1899–1925) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1902 Kentucky Derby.[1] He was named for a figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the "Merry Men." He was bred by Thomas McDowell at his Ashland Stud in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the son of the 1895 Kentucky Derby winner Halma. Raced and trained by McDowell, at age two Alan-a-Dale won three of his four starts but the following year health problems kept him out of racing until Kentucky Derby time. Ridden by future Hall of Fame jockey Jimmy Winkfield, the official Kentucky Derby website says that Alan-a-Dale had a lead of six lengths and despite going lame down the stretch, "carried on with flawless courage to win by a nose." This injury kept Alan-a-Dale out of racing for the rest of the year.[2]

At age four, Alan-a-Dale returned to the track and raced successfully for three more years, retiring with seventeen wins from his thirty-seven lifetime starts. At stud, he met with limited success and died in 1925 at age twenty-six.

Pedigree

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Pedigree of Alan-a-Dale
Sire
Halma

1892

Hanover

1884

Hindoo Virgil
Florence
Bourbon Belle Bonnie Scotland
Ella D
Julia L

1885

Longfellow Leamington
Nantura
Christine Australian
La Grande Duchesse
Dam
Sudie McNairy

1880

Enquirer

1867

Leamington Faugh-a-Ballagh
Pantaloon Mare
Lida Lexington
Lize
Nannie McNairy

1863

Jeff Davis Hero
Marigold
Elizabeth McNairy Ambassador
Princess Ann


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