Lonesome Glory
| Lonesome Glory | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Transworld |
| Grandsire | Prince John |
| Dam | Stronghold |
| Damsire | Green Dancer |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1988 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Walter M. Jeffords |
| Owner | Kay Jeffords |
| Trainer | Bruce Miller Charlie Brooks |
| Record | 42: 23-5-5 |
| Earnings | $1,223,669 |
| Major wins | |
| Sport of Kings Challenge (1992) Breeders' Cup Steeplechase (1993) Colonial Cup (1994, 1995, 1997) Iroquois Steeplechase (1997) Carolina Cup (1997, 1999) |
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| Awards | |
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Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999) |
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| Honours | |
| Lonseome Glory Hurdle Stakes at Belmont Park | |
Lonesome Glory (1988–2002) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a specialist steeplechaser who won the title of American Champion Steeplechase Horse on a record five occasions. In a racing career which lasted from 1991 through 1999, he ran forty-two times and won twenty-three races including many of America's most important steeplechases including the Breeders' Cup Steeplechase, the Colonial Cup (three times) and the Carolina Cup (twice). Lonesome Glory also became one of the few American-trained horses to compete successfully in the United Kingdom, winning races in 1992 and 1995. Lonesome Glory was the first American steeplechaser to win more than $1 million in prize money.
Lonesome Glory, who was foaled on February 18, 1988, was a tall, rangy chestnut horse with a white blaze. He was bred in Kentucky by Walter M. Jeffords, who died in 1990, leaving his horses to his wife, Kay. Lonesome Glory was originally intended for a career in Show-jumping but proved temperamentally unsuitable and was switched to racing. He was trained by Bruce Miller and ridden in most of his races by Blythe Miller, his trainer's daughter.
He was sired by the Irish St. Leger winner Transworld out of the mare Stronghold, a daughter of Green Dancer, a multiple Group One winner who became a leading sire.
Lonesome Glory began his racing career as a three-year-old in 1991, when he won one minor race from four starts. As a four-year-old, he won five of his seven races. In December, he was sent across the Atlantic to contest the Sport of Kings Challenge, a hurdle race over two miles five and a half furlongs at Cheltenham Racecourse in England. He was given little chance, starting a 20/1 outsider, but stayed on strongly in the closing stages to win by a head. After the race, Lonesome Glory and his rider were given an enthusiastic reception by British racegoers: Miller explained that "there were a lot of people around clapping and cheering... I was a little bit stunned." The win, which made headlines in the British press, was the first by an American-trained horse in a British National Hunt race. At the end of the year Lonesome Glory was voted America's champion steeplechaser for the first time at the Eclipse Awards.
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