Typhoon II

For the combat robot that won Robot Wars Series 7, see Typhoon 2.

Typhoon II (foaled April 17, 1894) was an American thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Tennessee and was the winner of the 1897 Kentucky Derby.

Typhoon II
Sire	Top Gallant
Grandsire	Sterling
Dam	Dolly Varden
Damsire	Glenelg
Sex	Stallion, eventually Gelding
Foaled	1894
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	John B. Ewing
Owner	1) J. C. Cahn 2) Bromley & Co.
Trainer	J. C. Cahn
Record	39: 19-9-3
Earnings	$22,325
Major wins
Westchester Highweight Handicap (1896) Golden Rod Stakes (1896) Brewers' Stakes (1896) St. Louis Club Members Handicap (1897) Memorial Handicap (1897) Peabody Hotel Handicap (1897) Luehrmann Hotel Stakes (1897) Chickasaw Club Handicap (1897) Highweight Handicap (1898) Triple Crown Race wins: Kentucky Derby (1897)

Typhoon won the Derby at 11-5 odds against the favored Ornament on a very muddy track.^[1] After his Derby win Typhoon II was sold on August 1, 1897, for $12,000 to Bromley & Co., owned by Joseph E. Bromley & Arthur Featherstone.^[2] He followed his Derby win by winning the Club Members' Handicap in St. Louis, Missouri but lost many races after his three-year-old season. The stallion's career declined in his fourth season, when he lost a race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track against only one other competitor.^[3]

Typhoon II was gelded in 1899 and was thereafter stabled at the Kenmore Farm in Lexington, a farm owned by Bromley & Co., to live the remainder of his life as a pensioner.^[4] By 1903, Featherstone ordered his trainer, Julius Bauer, to dispose of Typhoon II, as the horse's paddock was needed for another purpose. Bauer gave the horse to a friend in Lexington, who put him to work as a cart horse hauling hay for livestock.^[5][6]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Typhoon II

Sire Top Gallant 1884	Sterling 1868	Oxford	Birdcatcher
			Honey Dear
		Whisper	Flatcatcher
			Silence
	Sea Mark 1873	Adventurer	Newminster
			Palma
		Sea Gull	Lifeboat
			Wild Cherry
Dam Dolly Varden 1877	Glenelg 1866	Citadel	Stockwell
			Sortie
		Babta	Kingston
			Alice Lowe
	Nannie Black 1873	Virgil	Vandal
			Hymenia
		Nannie Butler	Lexington
			Tokay

References

1. Typhoon II Pedigree
2. "Typhoon II sold for $12,000" New York Times. August 2, 1897
3. NY Times, September 8, 1898
4. NY Times Notes, January 16, 1899
5. Staff (January 31, 1904). "Noted Kentucky Derby winner pulls a wagon". Courier-Journal. p. B2.
6. Daily Racing Form. "Careers of Kentucky Derby winners." May 19, 1910.