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Boston Boston soon will have a historical highway marker in Henrico. No, not the city – the thoroughbred racehorse. Boston, a regal chestnut-colored horse with a white blaze on his nose, is generally regarded as the first great racehorse in American history. He lived from 1833 to 1850 and was born in Henrico County, owned
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great Secretariat’s sweep of the Triple Crown with performances that made him the most recognized chestnut racehorse in popular culture. In lieu of a new Triple Crown champion, the racing media will spend much of this spring remembering the colt’s rise to timeless fame.
The great proliferation of gray coloring in the Thoroughbred came through The Tetrarch, bred in Ireland by Edward Kennedy, who reportedly purchased Roi Herode because of a fascination with the Byerley Turk line through Herod.