Lamplighter (horse)

Lamplighter (foaled 1889 in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse for whom the Lamplighter Stakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack is named.[1]

Lamplighter
SireSpendthrift
GrandsireAustralian
DamTorchlight
DamsireSpeculum
SexStallion
Foaled1889
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederSpendthrift Stud
(Overton H. Chenault)
Owner1) Samuel S. Brown
2) Pierre Lorillard
3) Gottfried Walbaum
Trainer1) John W. Rogers
2) John Huggins
Record66: 29-15-9
EarningsUS$88,545
Major wins
First Special Stakes (1892, 1893)
Second Special Stakes (1892)
Twin City Handicap (1892)
Thistle Stakes (1892
Champion Stakes (1892)
Fall Stakes (1893)
Labor Day Stakes (1893)
Oriental Handicap (1893)
Standard Stakes (1893)
Maturity Stakes (1893)
Awards
American Co-Champion Handicap Male Horse (1893)
Honors
Lamplighter Stakes at Monmouth Park

Racing career

Bred by Overton Chenault's breeding partnership at his Spendthrift Stud in Lexington, Kentucky, Lamplighter was purchased by Samuel Brown who raced him as a two-year-old and into late summer of his three-year-old season under the care of future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, John Rogers. On August 10, 1892, the day after Lamplighter's win in the Champion Stakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack, Samuel Brown sold Lamplighter to Pierre Lorillard for $30,000.[2] Under new trainer John Huggins, Lamplighter continued to compete successfully and would be named the 1893 American Co-Champion Handicap Male Horse. In August 1893, Pierre Lorillard sold Lamplighter to Saratoga Race Course owner Gottfried "Dutch Fred" Walbaum.[3] In September Walbaum organized a match race between Lamplighter and the Marcus Daly owned Tammany. A major event, the Boston Sunday Post reported that "The Betting About Even" and opined that it was "Sure To Be One Of the Greatest Matches In The History of Racing" [4] Tammany who won by four lengths.

Pedigree
Pedigree of Lamplighter, brown horse, 1889
Sire
Spendthrift		 Australian West Australian Melbourne
Mowerina
Emilia Young Emilius
Persian
Aerolite Lexington Boston
Alice Carneal
Florine Glencoe
Melody
Dam
Torchlight		 Speculum Vedette Voltiguer
Mrs. Ridgway
Doralice Orlando
Preserve
Midnight King Tom Harkaway
Pocahantas
Starlight Kremlin
Evening Star (family: 14-e)

References
  1. "Lamplighter With Simms Up". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  2. "Gossip of the Race Track". New York Times. 1892-08-29. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  3. "Cherry and Black; The Career of Mr. Pierre Lorillard on the Turf". W. S. Vosburgh. 1916-01-01. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  4. "$1,000,000 On A Horse Race". Boston Sunday Post. 1893-09-24. Retrieved 2019-02-09.


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