This feature originally appeared in the August 13, 2016 issue of BloodHorse. A handwritten note left on the desk of Whitney Farm’s secretary on May 1, 1928, matter-of-factly announced the birth of one ...

In the fifth running of the Whitney Stakes (4,000 added, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/4 miles) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 13 (1932), Equipoise went through the formality of scoring his ninth win of the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The 1928 American thoroughbred foal crop produced a quartet of exceptional racehorses dubbed “The Big Four” by the Chicago Tribune. The group comprised Equipoise and Twenty ...

There were only five horses in the race and Cornelius Vanderbilt (“Sonny”) Whitney’s Equipoise, the 1 to 5 favorite, had beaten most of them before. So there was not a great deal of betting on the ...

PEOPLE who go racing at Jamaica this weekend arc going to be disappointed. They’ll expect something that’s a combination of a movie director’s idea of bookmaking and an old horseplayer’s tale of the ...

The race horse Equipoise (1928-38) was a big daisy on the U. S. turf. In six years of racing he won $338,610 for his owner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. In 51 starts he finished first 32 times.* He ...

FOR the next five weeks we’re going to talk horse, and think horse. We’re going to get up at six o’clock in the morning (at least once) to watch the gallops, and we’re going to breakfast at the stable ...