Whiskery
SireWhisk Broom II
GrandsireBroomstick
DamPrudery
DamsirePeter Pan
SexStallion, eventually Gelding
Foaled1924
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederHarry Payne Whitney
OwnerHarry Payne Whitney
TrainerFred Hopkins
Record70: 14-16-32
Earnings$122,211
Major wins
Ardsley Handicap (1926)
Huron Handicap (1927)
Stanley Produce Stakes (1927)
Twin City Handicap (1927)
Chesapeake Stakes (1927)

American Classics wins:
Kentucky Derby (1927)

Awards
American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse (1927)
Last updated on 4/15/2016

Whiskery (foaled 1924 - died 1937) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the winner of the 1927 Kentucky Derby after defeating Osmand by a nose in the stretch.[1] Whiskery won the Ardsley Handicap at age two and the Chesapeake Stakes at age three. He was third in the 1927 Preakness Stakes and would be named American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse that year.[2]

Whiskery was sold in 1927 to the Stone-Hancock-Woodward partnership for $60,000 for use as a stud horse. However, he proved to be sterile and was put back into training as a gelding. Whiskery did not achieve his previous racing success and was finally shipped in 1931 to the Charles Stone's Morven Stud in Charlottesville, Virginia for use as a saddle horse.[3][4]

Whiskery's time of death was not officially reported to The Jockey Club, but it is assumed that he died around 1936 as the result of a catastrophic leg injury, either sustained by colliding with a tree while fulfilling his duty as the night watchman's horse or as a result of a track injury.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "75,000 See Whiskery Win Kentucky Derby". New York Times. May 15, 1927. Section 10, page 1. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Whitney Silks First and Third in Preakness". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. May 10, 1927. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Whiskery's Adieu To Turf". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. June 26, 1931. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  4. 1 2 Bolus, Jim (1997). Derby Magic. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-56554-276-1.
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