Display (horse)

Display (1923–1944) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Display
Sire	Fair Play
Grandsire	Hastings
Dam	Cicuta
Damsire	Nassovian
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1923 Mereworth Farm Lexington, Kentucky
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Walter J. Salmon Sr.
Owner	Walter J. Salmon Sr.
Trainer	Thomas J. Healey William H. Bringloe
Record	103: 23-25-19
Earnings	$256,326
Major wins
Latonia Championship Stakes (1926) Jockey Club Cup Handicap (1927) Champlain Handicap (1927) Baltimore Handicap (1927) Pimlico Cup Handicap (1927) Toronto Cup Handicap (1927) Washington Handicap (1927) Autumn Stakes (1928) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1928) Triple Crown wins: Preakness Stakes (1926)
Honours
Display Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Background

He was owned and bred by Walter J. Salmon Sr., at his Mereworth Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Display was sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Fair Play, a descendant of West Australian, the first winner of the English Triple Crown. He was out of the mare Cicuta.

Trained by Thomas J. Healey, Display was an extremely difficult horse to handle and in virtually every race caused considerable problems at the starting gate. Nonetheless, he was successful on the racetrack and was always a sound horse that made more than 100 starts in five years of racing.

Racing career

As a two-year-old, Display was entered in two major races for his age group, but neither was a winning effort. He was a runner-up to the J. K. L. Ross colt Penstick in the 1925 Grey Stakes at Old Woodbine Race Course in Toronto, Ontario, and had a third-place effort in the Pimlico Futurity at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, behind winner Canter and runner-up Bubbling Over. The following spring, he met those two horses again in the 1926 Kentucky Derby. In the 13-horse field, Bubbling Over won the Derby with Canter eighth and Display, ridden by John Maiben, far back in 10th place. However, Display came back to win the Preakness Stakes. He went on that year to win the Latonia Championship Stakes and to earn a second-place finish in the American Derby and a third in the Travers Stakes, as well as the Washington Handicap.

Sent back to racing at age four, Display had his most successful season in 1927. He won the Jockey Club Cup Handicap, Toronto Cup Handicap, Baltimore Handicap, and the Champlain and Washington Handicaps. In addition, he earned seconds in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Toronto Autumn Cup, plus a third in the Bowie and Brooklyn Handicaps.

In 1928, Display won the Toronto Autumn Cup, and in Chicago, the Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap. Attempting to win his second straight Washington Handicap at Laurel Park Racecourse, Display ran second to Mike Hall, who went on to earn 1928 American Champion Older Male Horse honors.

Racing at age six in 1929, Display was third three times in important races: the King Edward Gold Cup, the Washington Handicap, and the Whitney Handicap.

Stud record

Retired to stud duty at his owner's Mereworth Farm, Display was a successful sire who passed along his durability to many of his offspring. Of his progeny, the most successful was Discovery, the 1935 American Horse of the Year and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Display died in 1944 at Mereworth Farm and is buried there. His last three foals were born that year.

Sire line tree

• Display
  • Discovery
    • Loser Weeper
    • Find

Pedigree

Pedigree of Display

Sire Fair Play ch. 1905	Hastings brown 1893	Spendthrift	Australian
			Aerolite
		Cinderella	Tomahawk
			Manna
	Fairy Gold ch. 1896	Bend Or	Doncaster
			Rouge Rose
		Dame Masham	Galliard
			Pauline
Dam Cicuta bay 1919	Nassovian bay 1913	William the Third	St. Simon
			Gravity
		Veneration	Laveno
			Admiration
	Hemlock bay 1913	Spearmint	Carbine
			Maid of the Mist
		Keystone	Persimmon
			Lock and Key (Family 2-u)