Sun Briar - Binghamton, NY
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N 42° 04.095 W 075° 53.600
18T E 426095 N 4657740
A gravestone for three horses owned by Willis S. Kilmer
Waymark Code: WMN4A8
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/24/2014
Views: 9
from Wikipedia: "Willis Sharpe Kilmer...marketing pioneer, newspaperman, and horse breeder...best known for advertising and promoting his uncle's Swamp Root patent medicine formula until it became a household name...fell out of favor after the advent of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act...Kilmer was the breeder of Reigh Count, the winner of the 1928 Kentucky Derby. He was the owner of Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby and 1922 American Horse of the Year, and the breeder and owner of Sun Beau, the largest money maker until Seabiscuit in 1939. Both Exterminator and Sun Beau were elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame."
This gravestone is for three horses Sun Briar, Suntica and Exterminator.
From the Exterminator Wikipedia article "Kilmer bought Exterminator to help his prized colt, Sun Briar in his workouts...As the Derby approached, Sun Briar developed ringbone and Kilmer suddenly had no horse for the race...Ridden by a disappointed Willie Knapp, who'd expected to be up on Sun Briar, Exterminator went off at odds of 30-1 to the heavily favored War Cloud. Exterminator raced at the back until the field turned for home, when he launched his bid. Nearing the wire, he passed Escoba and won the Derby by a length...His career record of 33 stakes wins has never been broken by any thoroughbred raced in North America."
TITLE: Sun Briar
ARTIST(S): unknown
DATE: 1943
MEDIUM: granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS NY000775
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
LaFrance Animal Cemetery, Gardner Road, Binghamton, New York
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Survey said undetermined condition. The condition was good.
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