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| Luke Blackburn | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Bonnie Scotland |
| Grandsire | Iago |
| Dam | Nevada |
| Damsire | Lexington |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1877 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Capt. James Franklin |
| Owner | S. L. Wartzfelder Capt. Jim Williams at 2 Dwyer Brothers Stable at 3 |
| Trainer | Capt. Jim Williams at 2 James G. Rowe, Sr. |
| Record | 39 Starts: 25-6-2 |
| Earnings | $49,460 |
| Major wins | |
| Champion Stakes (1880) Kenner Stakes (1880) Grand Union Prize (1880) United States Hotel Stakes (1880) |
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| Honours | |
| U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1956) | |
| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
| Last updated on December 17, 2007 | |
Luke Blackburn (1877–1904) was a Thoroughbred race horse born and bred in Tennessee by Capt. James Franklin.
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Background [link]
Sired by Bonnie Scotland, his dam was Nevada out of perhaps the most influential stallion America ever produced, the great Lexington. A bay foal, he was sold at two to Capt. Jim Williams who paid $510 for him. (Just over a decade since the American Civil War, men who could afford to race horses were also the men who had been officers, hence the copious captains.)
Williams named the colt for Luke P. Blackburn, the then governor of the state of Kentucky and proceeded to race him thirteen times. Luke won twice. When the horse turned three, Capt. Williams sold him to the famous (or infamous) Dwyer Brothers for $2,500 and the Dwyer Brothers placed him in the hands of the Hall of Fame trainer, James G. Rowe, Sr..
Racing Career [link]
In his first start at three, Luke lost again (to a colt named Fonso who would win the Kentucky Derby that year), but then he won twenty three of his next twenty four races…and he won them by six lengths or ten lengths or even fifteen, breaking records as he did. Luke Blackburn was so strong and pulled so hard his jockeys complained when they rode him. Sports writers wrote that he was the most muscular horse in America even though he stood only 15 and a quarter hands high.
The famous Hall of Fame jockey, Jim McLaughlin, said Luke could not be held back. He also said he was the best horse he’d ever ridden. McLaughlin had the mount on Hindoo, Hanover, Miss Woodford, Firenze, Kingston, George Kinney, Tremont, Tecumseh and Salvator.
In his final start as a three-year-old, Luke was injured, but came back to the races at four. After two races, he was retired. The injury had proved the end of his days on the track.
Stud Career [link]
Luke Blackburn was sent to General William Hicks Jackson’s “Belle Meade Stud” located near Nashville, Tennessee. Luke produced one great horse, Proctor Knott, the only horse Salvator could never beat.
In 1904, at the age of twenty seven, Luke Blackburn was sold at auction for $20 to a W.H. Allison. He died within months.
References [link]
- "The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America" by William H.P. Roberton, Bonanza Books, New York, 1964
- Luke Blackburn’s pedigree
- Luke Blackburn in the Hall of Fame
- James Rowe, Sr. at the Hall of Fame
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Luke P. Blackburn
Luke Pryor Blackburn (June 16, 1816 – September 14, 1887) was an American physician, philanthropist, and politician from Kentucky. He was elected the 28th governor of Kentucky, serving from 1879 to 1883. Until the election of Ernie Fletcher in 2003, Blackburn was the only physician to serve as governor of Kentucky. After earning a medical degree at Transylvania University, Blackburn moved to Natchez, Mississippi, and gained national fame for implementing the first successful quarantine against yellow fever in the Mississippi River valley in 1848. He came to be regarded as an expert on yellow fever and often worked pro bono to combat outbreaks. Among his philanthropic ventures was the construction of a hospital for boatmen working on the Mississippi River using his personal funds. He later successfully lobbied Congress to construct a series of similar hospitals along the Mississippi.
Blackburn
Coordinates: 53°44′42″N 2°28′37″W / 53.7449°N 2.4769°W
Blackburn 
i/ˈblækbərn/ is a large town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 9 miles (14 km) east of Preston, 20.9 miles (34 km) NNW of Manchester and 9 miles (14 km) north of the Greater Manchester border. Blackburn is bounded to the south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen; Blackburn is its administrative centre. At the time of the UK Government's 2001 census, Blackburn had a population of 105,085, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 140,700. Blackburn had a population of 106,537 in 2011, a slight increase since 2001. Blackburn is made up of fifteen wards in the Northeast of the surrounding borough.
A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when wool was woven in people's houses in the domestic system. Flemish weavers who settled in the area during the 14th century helped to develop the woollen cottage industry.James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, was a weaver in Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn and the most rapid period of growth and development in Blackburn's history coincided with the industrialisation and expansion of textile manufacturing. Blackburn was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution and amongst the first industrialised towns in the world.
Blackburn (ancient parish)
Coordinates: 53°44′56″N 2°29′06″W / 53.749°N 2.485°W Blackburn was a large parish in Lancashire, England. The parish had numerous townships and chapelries, which were administered separately from the core Blackburn area, and became recognised as separate civil parishes in 1866. The parish formed part of the Blackburn hundred.
The other parishes were:
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Blackburnshire
Blackburnshire (also known as Blackburn Hundred) was a hundred, an ancient sub-division of the county of Lancashire, in northern England. Its chief town was Blackburn, in the northwest of the hundred. It covered an area similar to modern East Lancashire, including the current districts of Ribble Valley (excluding the part north of the River Ribble and east of the Hodder, which was then in Yorkshire), Pendle (excluding West Craven, also in Yorkshire), Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn, Blackburn with Darwen, and South Ribble (east from Walton-le-dale and Lostock Hall).
Much of the area is hilly, bordering on the Pennines, with Pendle hill in the midst of it, and was historically sparsely populated. It included several important royal forests. But in the 18th century several towns in the area became industrialized and densely populated, including Blackburn itself, and Burnley.
Early history
The shire probably originated as a county of the Kingdom of Northumbria, but was much fought over. In the Domesday Book it was among the hundreds between the Ribble and Mersey rivers ("Inter Ripam et Mersam" in the Domesday Book) that were included with the information about Cheshire, though they are now in Lancashire and cannot be said clearly to have then been part of Cheshire. The area may have been annexed to the embryonic Kingdom of England following the Battle of Brunanburh in 937.
