Background
Parole's sire was the great Leamington who also produced Longfellow, Aristides (named by his breeder for Aristides Welch who had imported Leamington into the US), winner of the first Kentucky Derby, and Iroquois, first American bred horse to win the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes.
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