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Fashion (horse)
Fashion retirement at the age of twenty to prove to the young
folks how good he had been in his racing days. At that
age he ran a four-mile heat in eight minutes flat. Bonnets
O’Blue won the National Colt Stakes and a $10,000 match
race against Goliah, by Eclipse, over the Union Course in
1831. Her dam was Reahty by Sir Archy making Bonnets
O’Blue inbred to Sir Archy (by Diomed) in the second gen-
eration.
Racing career
Owned and bred by William Gibbons in Madison, New
Jersey (the farm was located on land that today accom-
"Fashion meets Peytona" modates Drew University), the chestnut Fashion was con-
sidered the best racemare of her generation, or any gen-
Sire Trustee (GB) eration that came before her. In 36 starts, Fashion won 32
times, including defeating the great Boston twice.
Grandsire Catton In Fashion’s day, races were four miles (6,400 meters)
Dam Bonnets o’ Blue long and run in gruelling heats with each heat usually
covering a distance of four miles. These races were not
Damsire Sir Charles
contested on tracks; they could be set anywhere the race
Sex Mare organizers decided to set them. Up and down hills,
through the center of towns and cities, over meadows
Foaled 1837
and through the woods.
Country United States William Gibbons was a modest man who only raced
Colour Chestnut horses he’d bred himself, and he never bet. He disliked
ostentation, but the public demand for Fashion’s match
Breeder William Gibbons races was huge and he gave in to their pressure more
Owner 1. William Gibbons than once. It is said that 70,000 people showed up for the
2. John Reber match between Boston and Fashion. Carrier pigeons car-
ried the news of each heat to New York City newspapers.
Trainer Samuel Laird
Record 36: 32-4-0 North versus South Match Race
Earnings $41,500 On 10 May 1842, five years old, Fashion met Boston in a
well publicised match race at the Union Course on Long
Honours
Island, New York with 70,000 people witnessing the
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee event. In the first heat, the nine-year-old Boston (carry-
ing 126 pounds) cut open a long jagged gash on his hip
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
caballus)
against a rail and both he and five-year-old Fashion (car-
rying 124 pounds) were upset by the crowd often surging
Fashion (1837 to 1860), was a famous Thoroughbred four-
onto the track. Boston led for three miles, but in the end
mile (6,400 meter) racemare that defeated Boston and set
Fashion won it by 35 lengths setting a new world record
a record of 7:32½, for that distance, before the American
of 7:32½ for a four-mile race.
Civil War. Until her meeting with Peytona, Fashion had
started 24 times, and won 23 races, 14 of which were of
four-mile heats, 6 of 3-mile heats and 3 of 2-mile heats for
Peytona versus Fashion
earnings of $35,600.[1] Boston and Fashion did not meet again, although there
She was sired by Trustee (foaled in Great Britain in was pressure to do so. Instead a new rival from the south,
1829) out of Bonnets o’ Blue (foaled in 1827 and by Sir a mare called Peytona who’d amassed more money over
Charles by the great Sir Archy). Trustee was taken out of a shorter career than Fashion, appeared. Peytona won
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her stake money by racing in one particular event, an af- several generations. Her daughter, Bonnie Kate, pro-
fair very reminiscent of today’s "futurities" where bets duced the speedy stakes mare, Bonnie Lizzie. Another
are placed well in advance of a race, in this case years in Young Fashion daughter, Columbia, was the dam of Dou-
advance. Peytona was an undefeated mare, with a long ble Cross, the sire of Guido, an American record holder
stride of 27 feet (8.2 m), which would have rivaled the for mile heats.[2]
great Longfellow’s stride. She died in 1860.
The match was set for May 15, 1845, once again at the
Union Course. This was going to be the last of the epic
match races at Union Course, although no one knew it at
Honors
the time. The crowd estimate was a possible 100,000 peo- Ladies’ gloves were devised in her name as were men’s
ple. Fashion was only the slight favorite. The biggest bet- cigars. She had more than one steamboat named after
ting was not on who might win, but on the time the race her and more than one hotel. Fashion was inducted into
would be run in. By the day of Peytona’s winning race, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1980,
only four horses showed up, Peytona won a huge stake, 120 years after her death.
and the organizer lost money.
On the morning of the match, reports come down to
us that Fashion was under the influence of her estrous
See also
cycle, but nothing could stop the race. The smaller, Fash- • List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
ion, carried 123 pounds. The larger mare, Peytona, car-
ried only 116 pounds. Peytona won in straight heats and References
the South rejoiced. However, Fashion came out of the
match in good condition while Peytona came out feverish [1] ANDERSON, JAMES DOUGLAS. "Making the
in both of her front legs. Both mares had been entered in American thoroughbred : especially in Tennessee,
the Jockey Club Purse a few days later but only Fashion 1800-1845". Internet Archive. THE PLIMPTON PRESS,
competed, winning easily. When Peytona and Fashion NORWOOD, MASS. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/
met again, this time Fashion won, and again so easily she index.php?title=Fashion_(horse)&action=edit&oldid=437499784.
was pulling up at the finish. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
Fashion continued racing until she was eleven years [2] Thoroughbred Heritage: Fashion Retrieved
old, hailed everywhere as the greatest American gallop- 2010-12-31
er. She ran in a total of 68 heats and lost only 13, for
which she had winnings of $41,500. External links
• Making the American Thoroughbred
Stud record • Fashion’s page in the Hall of Fame
Fashion produced seven foals in nine years, three of • Fashion’s pedigree
which were by her half-brother, Mariner (by Shark). The
two fillies by him, Etiquette (1853) and A la Mode (1854)
won some races.
In 1855 Fashion was sold, when in foal to Monarch,
along with her weanling filly, Young Fashion, (by
Monarch) and A La Mode, to John Reber of Lancaster,
Ohio.
Young Fashion produced ten foals, six of which were
good winners, and the mares continued the family for
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