Horsename: | Wintergreen |
Sire: | Dick Welles |
Grandsire: | King Eric |
Dam: | Winter |
Damsire: | Exile |
Sex: | Stallion, eventually Gelding |
Foaled: | 1906 |
Country: | United States |
Colour: | Bay |
Breeder: | Jerome Bristow Respess |
Owner: | 1) Jerome B. Respess 2) D. Fisk |
Trainer: | Charles Mack |
Record: | 61:16-14-8 |
Earnings: | $12,820 |
Race: | American Classics wins: Kentucky Derby (1909) |
Wintergreen (1906 - 1914) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1909 Kentucky Derby and for being the first horse bred in Ohio to win the Derby.[1] Wintergreen was bred and trained by Jerome "Rome" Respess at his Ohio stud farm. Respess was a multimillionaire owner of a brewing company and also owned Wintergreen's sire, Dick Welles[2] — named after Richard H. Welles, later the father of Orson Welles.[3]
Wintergreen raced from ages two to seven years old but did not win any stakes races before or after the Kentucky Derby but was a stakes performer for most of his career.[1]
Wintergreen was killed April 10, 1914, in a fire that consumed barn #18 at the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He had been gelded some years previously and was racing for D. Fisk.[4]