Dam North Wind Foaled 1940 Colour Bay Sex Stallion | Damsire North Star Country United States Breeder Lucas Berthold Combs Grandsire Royal Minstrel | |
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Owner Eddie "Rochester" Anderson | ||
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Burnt Cork (1940–1944) was a thoroughbred race horse, a son of Mr. Bones, who was owned by Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. His career earnings totaled $21,130 in 38 starts. The horse had 9 wins, places, and shows.
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Burnt Cork became the first horse entered at the Kentucky Derby by an African American owner in May 1943. As a dark horse among thoroughbreds eligible for the event, he was timed at 0:36 for 3/8 of a mile on April 6, 1943. Fulfilling a pre-race prediction of a last place finish, Burnt Cork came in 10th in a ten horse field.
Because of his last-place finish, there was some controversy about whether Anderson had entered the horse into the Derby for publicity purposes. Those who claimed this believed that the great race was marred by it. Frank B. Ward of the Youngstown Vindicator newspaper, devoted a considerable amount of space in his May 7, 1943 sports column to addressing this aspect. He pointed out that the horses of other prominent men had finished last in the past and there had been no outcry when that happened.
Ward went on to say that the money for Burnt Cork's Kentucky Derby entry was Anderson's to spend, that the dream of any thoroughbred horse owner was that his or her horse might be classed as good enough to qualify for the race, and one could certainly not blame Anderson for that. Ward continued, saying that Burnt Cork met all Kentucky Derby requirements for inclusion in 1943 and that there were no complaints at all from those who had also entered their horses in the race. He finished this segment by asking what all the shouting was about.
Career highlights
As a 2-year-old, a $800 yearling purchase at Saratoga, Burnt Cork won the $5,000 Prairie State Stakes at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago, Illinois, on September 5, 1942. Before an audience of 25,000 people the thoroughbred bested "All Hoss" owned by H.P. Headley. He was defeated by a length and a half by Woodford Lad, a 2-year-old chestnut colt, in the Hawthorne Stakes at Hawthorne Race Course, on September 26, 1942.
Burnt Cork ranked behind Count Fleet in Jack Campbell's Experimental Handicap list of top juvenile thoroughbred's of 1942. Scoring 114 there were 19 thoroughbreds which were rated higher when the list was released on January 15, 1943.
On June 5, 1943 Burnt Cork gained a show at the $5,000 added Steger Handicap at Hawthorne Race Course.
Burnt Cork died in Los Angeles of a fever he contracted while being shipped from Chicago in July 1944.