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Purchase (foaled in 1916 died 1936) an American Thoroughbred racehorse was called The Adonis of the Turf. Walter Vosburgh the official handicapper for The Jockey Club as well as a turf historian for many years (and for whom the Vosburgh Stakes were named) wrote: …one of the most exquisitely beautiful of racehorses…to describe Purchase would be to exhaust the superlative.

breeder
W.B._Miller
colour
Chestnut (coat)
dam
Cherryola
damsire
Tanzmeister
grandsire
Ormonde (horse)
owner
Sam Hildreth
race
Dwyer Stakes, Saranac Stakes, Stuyvesant Handicap, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Saratoga Handicap, Empire_City_Derby, Huron_Handicap, Southampton_Handicap
sex
Stallion
sire
Ormondale
trainer
Sam Hildreth

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