Wintergreen (horse)

Wintergreen (1906–1914) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1909 Kentucky Derby and for being the first horse bred in Ohio to win the Derby.

[1] Wintergreen was bred and trained by Jerome "Rome" Respess at his Ohio stud farm.

[3]: 36 Wintergreen raced from ages two to seven years old but did not win any stakes races before or after the Kentucky Derby but was a stakes performer for most of his career.

[1] Wintergreen was killed April 10, 1914, in a fire that consumed barn #18 at the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.

Legend – ₩ = Triple Crown winners, ♥ = Filly