Racing Career
Irish Lad showed enough potential that Herman Duryea and Harry Whitney paid $17,500 for him. Racing under the partners nom de course, Westbury Stable, and still trained by John Madden, Irish Lad won important races such as the Great Trial Stakes at Sheepshead Bay Race Track and the Saratoga Special Stakes. His 1902 performances earned him retrospective American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors.
As a three-year-old, Irish Lad's training was taken over by John W. Rogers. His biggest win of 1903 came on May 28 in the Brooklyn Handicap at Gravesend Race Track in which he set a new stakes record time. In May 1904, four-year-old Irish Lad won the prestigious Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park Racecourse then on June 26 at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track he set a world record of 2:17.60 for a mile and three eighths on dirt in winning the Advance Stakes over what the New York Times described as five of the best horses in the United States. Irish Lad came out of the July 9 Brighton Handicap badly lame and was retired but in May 1905 it was announced that he was back in training. In June 1905 Irish Lad finished ninth in an all-age handicap at Gravesend Race Track and shortly thereafter was retired to stud.
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