Typhoon II

{{short description|American Thoroughbred racehorse}}

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{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Typhoon II

|image_name= Typhoon II photograph.png

| sire = Top Gallant

| grandsire = Sterling

| dam = Dolly Varden

| damsire = Glenelg

| sex = Stallion, eventually Gelding

| foaled = 1894

| country = United States

| colour = Chestnut

| breeder = John B. Ewing

| owner = 1) J. C. Cahn
2) Bromley & Co.

| trainer = J. C. Cahn

| record = 39: 19-9-3

| earnings = $22,325

| race = Westchester Highweight Handicap (1896)
Golden Rod Stakes (1896)
Brewers' Stakes (1896)
St. Louis Club Members Handicap (1897)
Memorial Handicap (1897)
Peabody Hotel Handicap (1897)
Luehrmann Hotel Stakes (1897)
Chickasaw Club Handicap (1897)
Highweight Handicap (1898)

Triple Crown Race wins:
Kentucky Derby (1897)

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Typhoon II (foaled April 17, 1894) was an American thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Tennessee and was the winner of the 1897 Kentucky Derby.

Typhoon won the Derby at 11-5 odds against the favored Ornament on a very muddy track.[http://www.pedigreequery.com/typhoon2 Typhoon II Pedigree] After his Derby win Typhoon II was sold on August 1, 1897, for $12,000 to Bromley & Co., owned by Joseph E. Bromley & Arthur Featherstone.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/08/02/102487092.pdf "Typhoon II sold for $12,000" New York Times. August 2, 1897] He followed his Derby win by winning the Club Members' Handicap in St. Louis, Missouri but lost many races after his three-year-old season. The stallion's career declined in his fourth season, when he lost a race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track against only one other competitor.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/09/08/102076621.pdf NY Times, September 8, 1898]

Typhoon II was gelded in 1899 and was thereafter stabled at the Kenmore Farm in Lexington, a farm owned by Bromley & Co., to live the remainder of his life as a pensioner.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/16/101823272.pdf NY Times Notes, January 16, 1899] By 1903, Featherstone ordered his trainer, Julius Bauer, to dispose of Typhoon II, as the horse's paddock was needed for another purpose. Bauer gave the horse to a friend in Lexington, who put him to work as a cart horse hauling hay for livestock.{{cite news|last=Staff|title=Noted Kentucky Derby winner pulls a wagon|newspaper=Courier-Journal|date=January 31, 1904| page= B2}}[http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1910s;cc=drf1910s;g=drf;xc=1;q1=manuel;op2=and;op3=and;rgn=articles;idno=drf1910051901;didno=drf1910051901;view=pdf;seq=2_5;node=drf1910051901%3A2.5;passterms=1 Daily Racing Form. "Careers of Kentucky Derby winners." May 19, 1910.]