Blue Larkspur

Blue Larkspur
SireBlack Servant
GrandsireBlack Toney
DamBlossom Time
DamsireNorth Star III
SexStallion
Foaled1926
CountryUnited States
ColorBay
BreederCol. Edward Riley Bradley
OwnerCol. Edward Riley Bradley
TrainerHerbert J. Thompson
Record16:10–3–1
Earnings$272,070
Major wins
Juvenile Stakes (1928)
National Stallion Stakes (1928)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1928)
Withers Stakes (1929)
Arlington Classic (1929)
Stars and Stripes Handicap (1930)
Arlington Cup (1930)

American Classics wins:
Belmont Stakes (1929)

Awards
United States Horse of the Year (1929)
U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1930)

Honors
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1957)
#100 – Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Last updated on September 19, 2006

Blue Larkspur (1926–1947) was a bay Kentucky-bred thoroughbred race horse. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957,[1] and ranks Number 100 in The Blood-Horse's top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century. Of the 127 stakes winners bred by Colonel Edward Riley Bradley at his Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky – which includes Bimelech out of La Troienne – Blue Larkspur was considered the Colonel's finest horse.

  1. ^ [1] National Museum of Racing. Accessed February 13, 2011.