Print size 17″ X 22″, Image Size 11″ X 14″

This print has been in storage since 1967 and has slight discolorations around the print border which does not distract from the beauty of the print and would be easily covered up when matted and framed.

One of the most popular race horses of recent years, Stymie began his racing career May 7, 1943, in a $2,500 claiming race and ended it as the winner of more than $900,000. He began racing under the colors of the King Ranch, in cheap company, since his brilliant abilities at a distance had not yet been discovered. His handsome appearance attracted the attention of Hirsch Jacobs, and in his third start, on June2, he was claimed for $1,500 in the name of Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs, six days later he was “in the money” for the first time. Still running in claiming races, he won for the first time on August 18, in his fourteenth start. He ran later in the season in claiming races, but no one took him.
In October of his 2-year-old season Stymie began running in stakes races, and thereafter he moved steadily up the ladder of success. However, his first stakes victory was not scored until June 2, 1945, when he was a 4-year-old. This was in the Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. That year he won nine races, including the Brooklyn and Butler Handicaps, nine races, including the Brooklyn and Butler Handicaps, Saratoga Cup, Continental, Westchester, Riggs, and Pimlico Cup Handicaps, the distances ranging up to 2 ½ miles.
Thereafter he was one of the dramatic figures in American racing, with a way of trailing the leaders by many lengths, then turning on a tremendous burst of speed in the closing stages of a race. He had earned $52m260 in his first two years of racing. At four he earned $225,375; at five, $238,650; at six, $299,775. At seven his decline had begun but still he earned $95,275, and was the leading money winner of all time until the phenomenal Citation edged past him. As an 8-year-old in 1949 he was till trying. He failed to win that year, but earned $7,150, bringing his total earnings to $918,485.
Stymie entered the stud Virginia in 1949, came back to the races for an unsuccessful effort, stood in Kentucky in 1950, was put back in training, but failed to start again. He is now retired permanently, standing at Dr. Charles E. Hagyard’s Green Ridge Farm, Lexington, Ky.