:Hanover (horse)

Hanover was a chestnut colt bred at Colonel E. Clay's Runnymede Farm. Hanover was by Hindoo from Bourbon Belle by Bonnie Scotland. At the farm's yearling sale in May 1885, Hanover was sold to the Dwyer Brothers Stable for $1,250, where he joined Tremont, a very precocious two-year-old also born in 1884.

Trained by Frank McCabe, at age two, Hanover won all three races he contested: the Hopeful Stakes, the July Stakes, and the Sapling Stakes. With Tremont retired, the Dwyers turned to Hanover as the mainstay for the Dwyer Stable. Hanover started in 27 races at the age of three, racing at distances ranging from four furlongs (800 m) to two miles (3,200 m.), he won 20 times (including the Belmont Stakes by 15 lengths) and finished out of the money only once.Ahnert, Rainer L. (editor in chief), Thoroughbred Breeding of the World, Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970 Before finishing his first two seasons of racing, Hanover had won 17 consecutive races.[http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=87 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808195724/http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=87 |date=2010-08-08 }} Retrieved 2010-10-30

After several losses at age four, and an obvious lameness to the right forefoot, Hanover was nerved and given the remainder of the year to recover. At age five, he lost three times in his first four starts, but finished the season with 9 wins from his 17 race starts. For most of his racing career, Hanover raced against older and top-class horses while conceding them large weights. Hanover stopped racing as America's greatest earner with a career total of $118,887. From his 50 starts, he won 32 races, was second 14 times, and finished third twice, only unplaced twice.[http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Hanover.html Thoroughbred Heritage] Retrieved 2010-10-30

After his racing career ended, Hanover was sold to Colonel Milton Young and sent to his McGrathiana Stud farm near Lexington, Kentucky, where he enjoyed a very successful breeding career, becoming the leading sire in the United States for four consecutive years (1885–1889). His offspring include Hall of Fame inductee Hamburg, as well as David Garrick, Halma, Compute, The Commoner, Handspring, Half Time, and Yankee. In addition, he was the damsire of Triple Crown winner Sir Barton and also damsire of the great racing filly Tanya, winner of the 1905 Belmont Stakes.{{cite web|url=https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1905.pdf |title=1905 Belmont Stakes |publisher=NYRA Belmontstakes.com |date=1905-05-24 |access-date=2020-12-15}}

While pawing, Hanover was unable to feel the pain in his 'unnerved' foot, and broke his coffin bone. This led to septicemia, and his condition worsened before he was humanely euthanized in March 1899.

Following the creation of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Hanover was part of the first group of horses inducted in 1955.

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• Hanover[http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricSires/SireLineschts/SireLineBT.html Byerley Turk Line][http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Sirelines/Selim.htm Selim Sire Line][https://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Hanover.html Portrait: Hanover][http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hanover.html American Classic Pedigree: Hanover][https://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Studbook/EarlyH.htm Studbook: Early H]
• Buck Massie
• Jake
• Buckleya
• Halma[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/halma.html American Classic Pedigree: Halma]
• Alan-a-Dale[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/alan-a-dale.html American Classic Pedigree: Alan-A-Dale]
• Barnsdale
• Smart Set
• Acacia
• Oversight
• Mirebeau
• Insight
• Hammon
• Handsome
• The Commoner[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/the-commoner.html American Classic Pedigree: The Commoner]
• Simon D
• Johnnie Blake
• Doctor Boots
• Countless
• Parmer
• Great Britain
• Ben Holladay
• Handspring
• Major Daingerfield
• Handout
• Trouble
• Heywood
• Palo Alto
• Hamburg[https://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Hamburg.html Portrait: Hamburg][https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horse/hamburg-ky Hall of Fame: Hamburg][http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/hamburg.html American Classic Pedigree: Hamburg]
• Inflexible
• Textile
• Pluvious
• Strephon
• Dandelion
• Battleaxe
• Burgomaster[http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/burgomaster.html American Classic Pedigree: Burgomaster]
• Bourgeois
• Burgoright
• Glasgow
• Sebastolbol
• Portugal
• Orison
• Pegasus
• The Irishman
• Baby Wolf
• Hillside
• Borrow
• Buskin
• Prince Eugene
• Happy Go Lucky
• Handball
• Handsel
• Grover Hughes
• Colonel Livingstone
• Sanders
• Half Time
• Handcuff
• David Garrick
• Star of Hanover
• Withers
• Admonition
• Holstein
• Abe Frank
• Blackstock
• Mentor
• Wise Counsellor
• Good Advice
• Supreme Court
• Deliberator
• Barre Granite
• Kaffir
• Kaffir Boy
• King Hanover
• Prince Ahmed
• Luck and Charity
• Serpent
• Yankee
• Dinna Ken
• Yankee Gun
• Joe Madden
• Marse Abe
• Marse Hughes
• Naushon
• Nonpareil
• Penobscot

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{{Pedigree

|name = Hanover (USA), chestnut horse, 1884

|f = Hindoo
B. 1878　

|m = Bourbon Belle
1869　

|ff = Virgil
Br. 1864　

|fm = Florence
1869　

|mf = Bonnie Scotland
1853　

|mm = Ella D.
1857　

|fff = Vandal*

|ffm = Hymenia

|fmf = Lexington

|fmm = Weatherwitch

|mff = Iago

|mfm = Queen Mary

|mmf = Vandal*

|mmm = Falcon

|ffff = Glencoe*

|fffm = Tranby mare (12) (1840)*

|ffmf = Yorkshire

|ffmm = Little Peggy

|fmff = Boston

|fmfm = Alice Carneal

|fmmf = Weatherbit

|fmmm = Birdcatcher mare (24) (1853)

|mfff = Don John

|mffm = Scandal

|mfmf = Gladiator

|mfmm = Plenipotentiary mare (10) (1840)

|mmff = Glencoe*

|mmfm = Tranby mare (12) (1840)*

|mmmf = Woodpecker

|mmmm = Ophelia (Family: 21)

}}

* Hanover is inbred 3S x 3D to the stallion Vandal, meaning that he appears third generation on the sire side of his pedigree and third generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

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• [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=87 Hanover's page in the Hall of Fame]

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