![]() And there was Next Move, the champion 3-year-old filly in 1950 and Bed o'Roses, the champion 2-year-old filly 1949 and the champion handcap in 1951. He went on to win the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes and six other stakes before retiring. Native Dancer reigned as the champion 2-year-old colt in 1952 champion 3-year-old colt in 1953 and Horse of the Year in 1954. Vanderbilt's greatest achievement in racing was Native Dancer, whose name was one of the lineage puns for which Mr. He was a member of the Jockey Club and was voted by New York's turf writers as the man who did the most for racing four times. He was chief executive of the Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga Racetracks. He was president of the Westchester Racing Association and served as chairman of the board of the NYRA for four years. His line of stars began with Discovery who won six stakes races over all and sired 25 horses who won stakes. He bred horses there for the next 40 years. When he was 21, his mother gave him the 600-acre Sagamore Farm in Maryland. He was the skipper of a PT boat and shot lions with Ernest Hemingway in Africa. He pioneered the use of the starting gate and the photo finish. He ran the Pimlico Race Course and Belmont Park while he was in his twenties. was a noted horse breeder as well on Long Island. He spent his life breeding, owning and racing horses. His mother, Margaret Emerson, was from the Bromo Seltzer wealth and his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, died after giving his lifejacket to a woman on the Lusitania when the ship sank. A sportsman, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt II reputed to be the richest man in the world, of Mill Neck, died on Nov.
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