HORSE RELATED TRIVIA

[mchorseracecall]

Blue Jeans, the name of that horse owned by Merv Griffin is Cobalt Blue.

[Catalina]

New trivia question...

Name the 2007 Kentucky Derby contender owned by Merv Griffin that defected shortly before the race.  It would be the second year in a row for one of Griffin's horses to defect before the KD.

Name the other horse.

The other Merv Griffin horse that dropped out of the run for the roses, due to injury, was Stevie Wonderboy.

[Blue Jeans]

We have two winners!  Mchorseracecall and Catalina   

>If Cobalt Blue does not make the Derby, it would mark the second year in a row that Griffin has had a Derby contender not run due to a setback. Last year, Griffin's Stevie Wonderboy dropped off the Derby trail early in the season due to an injury.<

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/38706/cobalt-blue-may-miss-derby-would-open-door-for-teuflesberg#ixzz2lI2SZkq8

November is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.  Mr. Griffin died of prostate cancer on August 12, 2007 at age 82.

[Blue Jeans]

One more trivia question for the road ....

Can you name the only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors?

[Raven]

Would that be racehorses?

[Catalina]

Would have to be military horses.  They don't do burials with military honors for racehorses that I know of.

[Raven]

One of them has to be the Korean war hero that i think was a mare but i cant think of the name.  Sgt something!

[Flanders]

One more trivia question for the road ....

Can you name the only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors?

Reckless and Black Jack?

[Blue Jeans]

Would have to be military horses.  They don't do burials with military honors for racehorses that I know of.

True.  These were War Horses .... treated like military personnel ... because they were.

[Blue Jeans]

One more trivia question for the road ....

Can you name the only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors?

Answer:
>Black Jack died after a 29-year military career on February 6, 1976. He was cremated, with his remains laid to rest in a plot at Fort Myer, Virginia, on Summerall Field; his final resting place lies 200 feet (60 m) northeast of the flagpole in the southeast corner of the parade field. He is one of only two horses in United States history to be buried with Full Military Honors, the other being Comanche.<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jack_(horse)

>In June 1879, Comanche was brought to Fort Meade by the Seventh Regiment, where he was kept like a prince until 1887. He was taken to Fort Riley, Kansas. As an honor, he was made "Second Commanding Officer" of the 7th Cavalry. At Fort Riley, he became something of a pet, occasionally leading parades and indulging in a fondness for beer.
Comanche died of colic on November 7, 1891, around 29 years old. He is one of only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors, the other being Black Jack.

His remains were sent to the University of Kansas and preserved, where they can still be seen today in the university's Natural History Museum.Comanche was restored by museum conservator Terry Brown in 2005.

Comanche is often described as the sole survivor of Custer's detachment, but like so many other legends surrounding the Little Bighorn battle, this one is false. As historian Evan S. Connell writes in Son of the Morning Star:

Comanche was reputed to be the only survivor of the Little Bighorn, but quite a few Seventh Cavalry mounts survived, probably more than one hundred, and there was even a yellow bulldog. Comanche lived on another fifteen years, and when he died, he was stuffed and to this day remains in a glass case at the University of Kansas. So, protected from moths and souvenir hunters by his humidity-controlled glass case, Comanche stands patiently, enduring generation after generation of undergraduate jokes. The other horses are gone, and the mysterious yellow bulldog is gone, which means that in a sense the legend is true. Comanche alone survived.<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_(horse)

[Blue Jeans]

One more trivia question for the road ....

Can you name the only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors?

Reckless and Black Jack?

Reckless should've been counted as one that received full military honors according to this ....

>After the war, Reckless, who was praised by The Saturday Evening Post while still in Korea, made several television appearances, including on the "Art Linkletter Show." A film was planned, but ultimately did not materialize, Hutton said, and the horse fell from the national conversation. She later retired in 1960 at Camp Pendleton and after dying of natural causes, was buried there with full military honors on May 13, 1968.<

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/24/statue-korean-war-horse-reckless-to-be-unveiled-at-marine-museum-in-virginia/

I'm ashamed to admit it, though, I completely forgot about her story ... her dedicated military service was right up there with Comanche's war service!  Yikes!

Let's hope someone knows 'somebody' to get the .... 'rest of the story' corrected!

[Catalina]

And then there is also Chief, the last cavalry horse, who was buried with full military honors in May 1968.

http://olive-drab.com/od_army-horses-mules_lastcav.php  :

Chief, The Last U.S. Cavalry Horse

Chief, the last U.S. Army cavalry horse, was foaled in 1932. The Army purchased him in 1940 from a Nebraska rancher, at Ft. Robinson, NE. He arrived at his cavalry post, Ft. Riley, KS. on 3 April 1941, assigned to the 10th Cavalry and later the 9th Cavalry. In June 1942, Chief was transferred to the Cavalry School (also at Ft.Riley) where he rose to the rank of Advanced Cavalry Charger. Chief remained at the school after his 1949 semi-retirement until his 1958 full retirement.

During the 1950s and early 1960s the number of retired cavalry horses declined until only Chief was left. For years, Chief enjoyed his retirement days in a corral at the Ft. Riley Riding Club. Each year, Chief entertained hundreds of visitors, a living repreentative of the more than 6,000 horses who were kept on post at Ft. Riley during WW II, as well as all Army horses. Finally, on 24 May 1968, Chief died, to join the millions of faithful cavalry horses who served and died before him. A military funeral with full honors was held, attended by the Commanding General of the U.S. Army.

Chief is buried at Ft. Riley, at the foot of the Old Trooper Monument (modeled after the Cavalry soldier drawing "Old Bill" by Fredric Remington.) Chief is buried upright, encased in a marble vault, ready to ride again.

[Blue Jeans]

And then there is also Chief, the last cavalry horse, who was buried with full military honors in May 1968.

http://olive-drab.com/od_army-horses-mules_lastcav.php  :

Interesting site.
>The last West Point class to receive formal riding instruction was the January Class of 1943.<

[BaroqueAgain1]

Chief lived to be 36!? The Cavalry School folks took good care of the old charger. I wonder what his breeding was?

[Catalina]

There's a good chance the army didn't know his pedigree.  Here's another website talking about him:

http://www.qmfound.com/last_cavalry_horse_is_historic_symbol.htm