The winning time was 4 minutes 11 3⁄ 4 seconds, with a value to the winner of $2,450 (equivalent to $63,000 in 2022). In 1874, Springbok won the race while carrying 108 pounds (49 kg), beating Preakness who came in second, and Katie Pease, who placed third. During the 1870s, the Saratoga Cup was a 2 + 1⁄ 4 miles (3,600 m) race.
īesides the Belmont, Springbok won the 18 Saratoga Cup and the 1874 Citizens Stakes.
This was the third of three consecutive wins of the Belmont Stakes by David McDaniel as both owner and trainer, as he had already won the 1871 race with Harry Bassett and the 1872 race with Joe Daniels. The winning jockey was James Rowe, Sr., later to be a noted trainer. He won the race by four lengths from the second-placed finisher, Count D'Orsay, and the third place was Strachino. 13 furlongs (2,600 meters)) on a fast track. The race was run on June 7 over a distance of 1 + 5⁄ 8 miles (i.e. He won $5,200 (equivalent to $127,000 in 2022) for his owner from the race. He carried 110 pounds (50 kilograms) in the race, which had a winning time of 3 minutes 1 1⁄ 4 seconds. Springbok won the seventh running of the Belmont Stakes in 1873 at Jerome Park Racetrack. Īt two years of age, Springbok was owned and raced by Daniel Swigert, but was sold that year to David McDaniel for $2,000 (equivalent to $49,000 in 2022). Springbok was Hester's only stakes winning foal. Springbok was one of 26 stakes winning foals sired by Australian. Springbok was foaled in 1870, and was a chestnut stallion, bred by A. Hester was by Lexington and out of a mare named Heads I Say by imported stallion Glencoe. Springbok was sired by the imported horse Australian and out of the mare Hester.
After retiring from the racetrack, he sired five stakes winners and died in 1897. Besides the Belmont, Springbok won the Saratoga Cup twice, in 18 and was named Champion Older Male horse in 18. During his racing career he started 25 races, winning 17 of them. Foaled in 1870, he was sired by the imported stallion Australian, his dam was a daughter of Lexington. Springbok (1870–1897) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the seventh Belmont Stakes in 1873. American Champion Older Male Horse (1874)Īmerican Co-Champion Older Male Horse (1875)
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