Yo Tambien (horse)
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| Yo Tambien | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Joe Hooker |
| Grandsire | Monday |
| Dam | Marian |
| Damsire | Malcolm |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | 1889 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Theodore Winters |
| Owner | Kendall Stable |
| Trainer | General William Wynn |
| Record | 73: 44–11–9 |
| Earnings | $89,480 |
| Major wins | |
| Youthful Stakes (1891) Lakeview Handicap (1891) Garfield Park Derby (1892) Great Western Cap (1892) Tobacco Stakes (1892) Twin City Derby (1892) Boulevard Stakes (1892) Drexel Stakes (1892) Merchants' Stake (1893) Cincinnati Hotel Handicap (1893) Match race against Hawthorne (1893) St. Louis Brewers' Stakes (1894) Foster Memorial Handicap (1894) Spencer Handicap (1894) | |
| Honours | |
| Yo Tambien Handicap at Hawthorne Race Course | |
Yo Tambien (1889–1896) was an American Thoroughbred racing filly bred in California by Theodore Winters, a breeder and major landholder from the Washoe Valley in Nevada who was sometimes called "Black T" due to his huge, black, T-shaped moustache.
Theodore Winters was one of the foremost horsemen who founded Thoroughbred racing and breeding in California. Winters had gone west because of the California Gold Rush. Once there, he made his money as a businessman and by dealing in gold mining stock. Besides owning a huge spread near the present town of Winters in Yolo County, California, called Rancho del Arroyo, he owned another California farm on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sacramento called Rancho del Rio. On Rancho del Rio, he kept his best stallion, Norfolk, by the great stallion Lexington.
Meanwhile, in the 1870s, the founder of California's first sporting paper, the "Breeder and Sportsman" Joseph Cairn Simpson, had also come west, bringing a few horses. The best one was his homebred Illinois mare called Marian. To help finance his newspaper venture, Simpson sold Marian to "Black T" Winters. (Simpson eventually organized the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association as well as becoming a founding member of the National Trotting Association.) For years, Winters bred Norfolk to Marian, and almost every one of their ten foals proved exceptional, two among them in particular: Emperor of Norfolk and El Rio Rey. When Norfolk grew too old, Winters put Marian to a California-bred horse he owned called Joe Hooker, also a tail-male descendant of Lexington. Joe Hooker had, as well, the distinction of being a half-brother to the racing mare Mollie McCarty.
Marian and Joe Hooker
Joe Hooker had had a brief and difficult racing career, but many turfmen believed him the fastest race horse California had ever seen. When Winters bought him, already owning Norfolk, he gave him little thought. He bred him to a few Rancho del Arroyo mares, and then sent him on to this third ranch, the Rancho del Sierra in Washoe Valley, Nevada, to run in a pasture with a few lesser mares for company. When the Rancho del Arroyo mares started dropping Joe Hooker foals who were winners, Winters brought Joe Hooker back to the main breeding barn near Sacramento. The first mare he bred him to was his best mare, Marian. The result of the 1888 match between Marian and Joe Hooker was Yo Tambien.
Yo Tambien (Spanish for Me Too) was, like her father, a bright chestnut. Joe Hooker was a showy horse, and passed that showiness on to his daughter who turned out to be his best offspring. Yo Tambien won the most and raced the longest. In the Gay Nineties, she was called "Queen of the Turf."
