Joe Young (1876-1898) was an award-winning[1][2] Standardbred trotter from Peabody, Kansas at a time when harness racing was one of the most popular sports in the US.
The Peabody Weekly Republican called him an "inimitable model of beauty....[he] is undoubtedly the finest-shaped, best-built, cleanest-limbed, best-muscled fast trotter we have ever seen.
[14][15][16][17] "There are scores of visitors to the stables at the fair grounds each day to look at the famous Joe Young horses," wrote The Leader Courier in Kingman, Kansas.
Joe Patchen then sired Dan Patch, who attracted a crowd of 15,000 spectators when he was to compete at the Kansas State Fair in 1904.
Westbrook, wrote in a Kansas Board of Agriculture report that the horse died at the age of 22 after getting into an accident.
[4] Star of the West's lineage can be traced back to Messenger,[21] who was the great-grandsire of the famous Hambletonian 10.
[9][20] His direct offspring included Joe Younger (2:13:15)[4] and most notably Josephine Young, the result of a breeding with a common mare.
In 1978, about 100 years after Joe Young raced and breathed, one of his ninth generation offspring named Fire Cloud won the "Joe Young Memorial Driving Meet," named in the old-time horse's honor.