War Admiral, mighty son of Man O' War, undefeated as a three-year-old, won the last Widener, Jamaica's Queens County Handicap, Belmont Park's Jockey Club Gold Cup, The Saratoga Cup and Handicap The Whitney Stakes, Wilson Stakes and Rhode Island Handicap this year.
Lawrin owned by Herbert M. Woolf, galloped off with the Kentucky Derby, the Flamingo Stakes, Hialeah Stakes, Hollywood Trial Stakes and the American Invitational Three-Year-Old Championship at Inglewood.
Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, a Three-Year-Old, was the leading money-winner of the year with earnings of $189,710. The Howard colt won Santa Anita's $50,000 Handicap and $100,000 Derby, the Empire City Handicap, Narragansett Special and Governor's. Handicap.
Seabiscuit with $130,395, Lawrin with $123,215 and War Admiral with $90,840 trailed Stagehand for the year's money-winning honours. Sea-biscuit's total earnings, however, rai second to Sun Beau's all-time r of $376,744.
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