Tin Cup Chalice (foaled in the state of New York on April 3, 2005; died April 17, 2009), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 2008, became the first New York-bred to win New York’s “OTB Big Apple Triple" of Racing: the Mike Lee Handicap, the New York Derby, and the Albany Stakes.
Read more about Tin Cup Chalice: Pedigree, Racing Accomplishments, Japan Cup Dirt, Death
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—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
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And its presence adds to the rhyme of love
Persistently sung by the fall above.
No lip has touched it since his and mine
In turns therefrom sipped lover’s wine.””
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)