Sire Top Gallant Dam Dolly Varden Foaled 1894 Earnings 22,325 USD | Grandsire Sterling Damsire Glenelg Species Equus caballus | |
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Sex Stallion, eventually Gelding | ||
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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.
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Typhoon won the Derby at 11-5 odds against the favored Ornament on a very muddy track. After his Derby win, Typhoon II was sold to A. Featherstone, owner of Bromley and Company of Chicago, Illinois on August 1, 1897 for $12,000. 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.
Typhoon II was gelded in 1899 and was thereafter stabled at the Kenmore Farm in Lexington, a farm owned by Bromley and Company, to live the remainder of his life as a pensioner. 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.