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Sweep (horse)

Sweep
Sire Ben Brush
Grandsire Bramble
Dam Pink Domino
Damsire Domino
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1907
Country USA
Colour Brown
Breeder James R. Keene
Owner James R. Keene
John S. Barbee (Glen Helen Stud)
Trainer James G. Rowe, Sr.
Record 13: 9-2-2
Earnings $63,948
Major wins

National Stallion Stakes (1909)
Futurity Stakes (1909)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1910)
Carlton Stakes (1910)

Triple Crown race wins:
Belmont Stakes (1910)
Awards
Retrospective U.S. Champion 2-Y-O Colt (1909)
Retrospective U.S. Champion 3-Y-O Colt (1910)
Last updated on September 11, 2007

National Stallion Stakes (1909)
Futurity Stakes (1909)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1910)
Carlton Stakes (1910)

Sweep (foaled 1907 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Sweep was bred by James R. Keene. He was sired by Kentucky Derby winner Ben Brush out of the Domino mare Pink Domino. he was trained by James Rowe.

Sweep was a champion two-year-old with a long stride. He placed second in the Hopeful Stakes and the Saratoga Special Stakes before he won the Futurity Stakes by over half a dozen lengths under a tight hold.

Racing at three, with jockey James H. Butwell aboard, Sweep won the 1910 Belmont Stakes in a time of 2:22 when the race was contested at 1 3/8 miles. He was the favorite at 1 to 10 odds and won by six lengths over the only other starter, Duke of Ormonde. It was one of only five times in the history of the stakes race that just two horses have been entered.

Retired to Keene's Castleton Farm, Sweep was the leading sire by earnings in 1918 and again in 1925. He was a great sire and broodmare sire, with three daughters that produced Kentucky Derby winners. They were Beaming Beauty, dam of Bubbling Over; Brushup, dam of War Admiral; and Dust Whirl, dam of Whirlaway. Both War Admiral and Whirlaway became Triple Crown champions.


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