King James (horse): Difference between revisions

{{InfoboxShort thoroughbreddescription|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

| race = [[Tremont Stakes]] (1907)<br>[[Brooklyn Handicap]] (1909)<br>[[Metropolitan Handicap]] (1909)<br>[[Ocean Handicap]] (1909)<br>[[Omnium Handicap]] (1909)<br>[[Toronto Cup Stakes|Toronto Cup Handicap]] (1909, 1910)<br>[[Annual Champion Stakes]] (1910)<br>[[Brighton Mile]] (1910)<br>[[Sheepshead Bay Handicap]] (1910)

In 1909, John Madden sold King James to [[Sam Hildreth]], who began the year racing the four-year-old in [[California]], where he won three important Handicap races. Returning to the New York racing circuit, King James won the [[Brooklyn Handicap]] and the [[Metropolitan Handicap]] and in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada, the first of his two consecutive [[Toronto Cup Stakes|Toronto Cup Handicaps]]. Of his twelve starts that year, he had ten wins and two seconds, which earned him a historical [[Eclipse Award|Championship]] as the Top Handicap Male Horse in the United States.<ref>[http://www.pedigreequerybloodhorse.com/king+jameseclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf King''The JamesBloodhorse.com'' five-generationChampion's pedigreehistory and race recordcharts] Retrieved{{webarchive 2011-06-02|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904120526/http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf |date=September 4, 2012}}</ref>

At age five in 1910, King James won the 1910[[Annual Champion Stakes]], [[Sheepshead Bay Handicap]], his second straight Toronto Cup Handicap, and the [[Brighton Mile]] run that year at [[Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino|Empire City Race Track]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1910/07/06/archives/king-james-wins-the-brighton-mile-spill-in-first-race-at-yonkers-in.html |title= King James Wins The Brighton Mile |publisher= New York Times, page 8 |date=1910-07-06 |access-date=2021-11-07}}</ref> He continued to race through age seven with reasonable success, retiring with earnings in excess of $100,000. He was sent to [[stud (animal)|stud]] duty at Henry T. Oxnard's Blue Ridge Farm in [[Virginia]], where he sired ten stakes race winners. His offspring includes [[Travers Stakes|Travers]] and [[Withers Stakes]] winner [[Spur (horse)|Spur]] (b. 1909) and the filly [[My Dear III|My Dear]] (b. 1917), who raced successfully in Canada and the United States and was the 1921 [[American Champion Older Female Horse]]. King James was the damsire of [[Dark Secret (horse)|Dark Secret]] and full sisters [[Mona Bell<!--- Not the American newspaper reporter of the same name --->, the 2000 [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]] inductee, and Iribelle, the latter a foundation mare for [[E. P. Taylor|E. P. Taylor's]], [[Windfields Farm|The National Stud of Canada]] farm.<ref>[http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Plaudit.html King James at Thoroughbred Heritage] Retrieved 2011-06-02.</ref>