Pedigree Query

From the City of Fulshear's website: "Churchill Fulshear Jr. was interested in horses and horseracing. His stables were also on the ground floor of his home. The famous racehorse Get-A-Way, known as "Old Get" by the local people, was bred by Fulshear and competed on numerous tracks throughout the Un...

Looking at the Texas Historical Commission's online atlas ( http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us ), using keyword "derby", I found a marker in Fulshear, which is just west of Houston: "On July 16, 1824, land grant of Mexico to Churchill Fulshear, one of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin, father of...

Mineshaft has seen 39% of his first crop of foals run. If the Mineshaft's were truly late developers you wouldn't see 39% of them already running at two. About 35% of those runners have won but there's no "big" horse among his first crop. From Equidaily.com, in a story out of New Orleans, trainer N...

They've talked to people who live within 100 miles of there, and lots of them say they would go to the track. How much of a population base does it take to support a thoroughbred race track? How many people live within 100 miles of a place that is 10 miles outside of Live Oak?

Petitionville, Mutakddin, and Cape Town are all on the new Stallion Durability list (stallions ranked by percentage of foals that start). 88.6% of Petitionville's foals start, Mutakddin 86.6%, and Cape Town 72.6%. Another stallion by STG -- Hunting Hard -- is on the list as well, with 75.6%. http://...