Print size 16″ X 21″, Image Size 9.5″ X 11″

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.

Alsab was voted the 1941 U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and in his three-year-old season in which jockey Basil James rode him to a win in the Preakness Stakes and second-place to Shut Out in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, he won 1942 U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt honors.

On September 19, 1942, Alsab defeated the 1941 U.S. Triple Crown Champion Whirlaway in a match race at Narragansett Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Alsab was voted #65. In 1976, he was inducted in the United States’ National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

ALSAB, the juvenile champion of 1941, and one of the greatest 2-year-olds in the history of American racing, was foaled in 1939 at Mr. Thomas Platt’s Brookdale Farm, Lexington, Ky. He is a bay horse by Good Goods – Winds Chant, by Wildair.

When Mrs. Albert Sabath bid $700 for him at the Saratoga Sales of 1941, she made one of the bargain purchases of all times. For little more than a year later, her $700 yearling had won $110,600, and earned the two-year-old title of the year. He won the Joliet Stakes, by five lengths; the Primer Stakes, the Mayflower Stakes (equaled track record, 5 ½ furlongs, 1:05-1/5), the Hyde Park Stakes, by five lengths; Washington Park Juvenile, Prairie State, Champagne, Spalding Lowe Jenkins, and Walden Stakes, and the Washington Park Futurity. He also won a match race with Requested at Belmont Park. HE set a new track record for 6 ½ furlongs (1:16).

At throe, he won the Preakness, Withers, and Lawrence Realization Stakes. He was also first in the Dick Welles Handicap, American Derby, Narragansett Championship, and New York Handicap. The following year he was second in stakes, and was retired in 1944 with total earnings of $350,015.

Alsab entered stud in 1945 at Mr. Albert Sabath’s farm, near Lexington, Ky.

Alsab Farm, as it was called, adjoined the farm of the artist, Allen F. Brewer, Jr.