Axworthy Standardbred

Color: dk ch
Height: 3,2:15½m

(USA)3,2:15½m Dk. chestnut, star, rf coronet & bh fetlocks white.A chestnut colt by Axtell out of Marguerite, he was foaled in 1892 at Warren Park Farm, Terre Haute, IN. Axworthy was raced as a two-year-old but won only a few races and was not staked for the season. The next year he broke down after taking a record of 2:15½ and was retired. He was sold to John Shults, Brooklyn, NY at auction for $500. When the first crop of Axworthy began to appear it was evident that he was a wonderful sire. In Nov 1906 he was sold at public auction at MSG to William Simpson of Cuba, NY for $21,000. Axworthy was a sire of extreme speed and was responsible for 144 trotters and 6 pacers. He is one of the five great modern progenitors of the Standardbred. He died on Simpsons Lexington, KY farm in the charge of R.L. Nash in 1917.

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