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Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Three trophies won by three Amsterdam-linked race horses are missing. One of the missing trophies is from the 1929 Kentucky Derby.
Two horses with Amsterdam connections have won the Kentucky Derby but the trophy awarded the 1929 winner is missing.
The 1929 winner was a gelding named Clyde Van Dusen, the first male offspring of Man of War.
The horse was named for his Kentucky trainer, Clyde Van Dusen. The animal ended his life as an exercise horse for his human namesake who went on to be a horse trainer in California.
Van Dusen, a former jockey, said, “Clyde is a little horse, and that is why [the owner] named him after me.”
When jockey Linus McAtee first saw the horse, according to the Louisville newspaper, he thought people were playing a trick on him with an actual pony.
But with McAtee in the saddle, Clyde Van Dusen beat 20 other horses on a muddy track. The next gelding to win the Derby was Saratoga’s Funny Cide in 2003.
Amsterdam broom mill proprietor Herbert Gardner owned Clyde Van Dusen and was awarded the trophy. Gardner lived on Guy Park Avenue and had a horse track off today’s Golf Course Road in the town of Amsterdam, behind the location of a Fort Johnson fire station.
Brothers William and Herbert Gardner operated a broom factory on Chuctanunda Hill, a street running from Church to Grove streets east of the Chuctanunda Creek.
The Kentucky Derby Museum has made inquiries in an effort to locate the trophy awarded to Herbert Gardner for Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.
According to Kentucky Derby Museum director of curatorial and educational affairs Chris Goodlett, “To our knowledge, the trophy still has not been located.”
Herbert Gardner had financial reverses according to a 2008 story in The Daily Gazette and the trophy may have ended up with Gardner’s brother William, who was mayor of Amsterdam in two non-consecutive terms. The trophy may have passed on to William Gardner’s heirs.
The Gazette reported that in the late 1990s, Mike Kane of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, who was also a former Gazette sportswriter, worked on the missing trophy mystery without success.
The other Derby winner with Amsterdam connections was George Smith, a Kentucky-bred horse purchased by carpet mogul and Route 30 horse farm owner John Sanford. George Smith’s trainer, Hollie Hughes, was serving in the U.S. Army when George Smith won the 1916 Derby. The horse was named in honor of George Elsworth Smith, an early handicapper.
No trophy was awarded in 1916 for George Smith’s victory. Trophies first appeared in the 1922 Derby and the first Derby Gold Cup, as it is called, was presented in 1924 to Rosa Hoots, owner of Black Gold.
According to the Tulsa World newspaper, Black Gold’s Kentucky Derby trophy was stolen in the early 1930s from Hoots’ home and the presumption is the gold award was melted down and sold.
Two trophies won by horses from Amsterdam’s Sanford Stud Farm on Route 30 were among five trophies stolen in a brazen smash and grab at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs in September 2013.
A thief smashed his way into the museum at night and absconded with the trophies in a few minutes.
The trophy awarded to Laddie Sanford for his horse Sergeant Murphy, the winner of the 1923 Grand National steeplechase in England, was stolen. Also taken was a Saratoga Special trophy awarded to the Sanford horse Mohawk II in 1905.
Brien Bouyea, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame communications director, said there is nothing new to report on the trophies. “We haven’t heard anything in a while from any authorities about any leads or anything along those lines.”
The Mid-Morning Show with Jason Subik on WCSS 1490 AM 106.9 FM. Phone #518-843-2500. Special thanks to my guests Amsterdam Mayor Michael Villa , and Rob Spagnola and Michele Pawlik from the city’s Marketing, Tourism and Recreation Department.
Thursday, May 2, 2019-Video Podcast on The Historians
Monday, May 6, 2019- The Story Behind the Story Podcast focuses on the Saturday Daily Gazette column-about three trophies awarded to Amsterdam-linked race horses that are missing.
War, crime, movie theaters and a top historic site are the topics this May on The Historians Podcast with Bob Cudmore
May topics for The Historians Podcast include the Mexican-American War, a Fulton County murderer who wanted to hang, downtown movie theaters in Amsterdam, N.Y., the 1942 air raid on Tokyo led by American aviator Jimmy Doolittle and what’s new at one of the nation’s most significant historic sites, Fort Ticonderoga.
Here’s the schedule (schedule is subject to change):
Episode 264-Roger Higgins is author of “Billy Gogan Gone Fer Soldier,” a historical novel about an Irish immigrant and his experiences in the Mexican-American War in the 1840s.
Friday, May 10, 2019-Episode 265-Leader Herald newspaper history columnist Peter Betz has stories about a murderer who wanted to hang and a salesman who stole the goods he was supposed to sell.
Friday, May 17, 2019-Episode 266-Daily Gazette history columnist Bob Cudmore has stories about Amsterdam’s downtown movie theaters, a syndicated journalist from Fonda and a Civil War surgeon who was born in Root, N.Y.
Friday, May 24, 2019-Episode 267- Linda Thompson is author of the historical novel “The Plum Blooms in Winter.” The book is based on the 1942 American air raid on Tokyo led by pioneer aviator Jimmy Doolittle.
Friday, May 31, 2019-Beth Hill is president and CEO of Fort Ticonderoga in Ticonderoga, N.Y.
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