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Originally Posted by cal828
Actually, his horses won back to back runnings of the Preakness in 1992 and 1993 (Pine Bluff and Prarie Bayou) and his horse Temperance Hill won the 1980 running of the Belmont Stakes. That was the year that Genuine Risk won the Kentucky Derby. He also owned some other stakes winners like Cox' s Ridge, and Vanlandingham. He always named his horses after places in Arkansas that were significant to his timber business, except for Vanlandingham who was named after a family that had a house on Cox's Ridge.
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This reminds me of a really cool book they have in the Oaklawn gift shop and that I've never seen since. It gave the background behind the names of some of the greatest horses we've had the pleasure of watching run.
I wish I would have bought it.