Electioneer (foaled April 20, 1904 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his 1906 win in New York's rich Futurity Stakes.
[3] At a June 26, 1905 auction at New York's Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Electioneer was purchased for $2,300 by horseman David A. Boyle on behalf of trainer William Lakeland, a future U.S.
Despite a bad start, he came back strongly to finish second, only a head behind the Newcastle Stable colt McCarter in a six furlong non-stakes event at New York's Brighton Beach Race Course.
This was the five and one-half furlong Flash Stakes and was won by the James R. Keene colt, Peter Pan who at age three in 1907 would become the National Champion and go on to a career that led to his induction into the U.S.
[1] Electioneer's next start would not be just a winning effort but victory in the richest and most important race of the year for American juvenile horses.
[6] On September 3, just two days after winning the Futurity, on the same Sheepshead Bay track Electioneer easily won the five furlong Autumn Maiden Stakes by six lengths.
[12] However, the racing and breeding industry was thrown into massive uncertainty when, on June 11, 1908, the Republican controlled New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes passed the Hart-Agnew anti-betting legislation.
[13] After a 1911 amendment to the law that would limit the liability of owners and directors was defeated in the Legislature, every racetrack in New York State shut down.