One of our National Holidays each year falls in February to honor the Presidents of our United States. No mail service, banks and schools are closed, lots of sales with a Presidential theme, so it's a big deal. In light of that, surely there are some saddlebreds named after our past presidents, right? As I discovered, that's not the case. As a matter of fact, half of the presidents don't have a horse named in their honor, and most of the horses that were named for a president didn't have much of an impact. If fact, there is a clean winner in the Best-Equine-President contest.
So here is the list of all of our 45 presidents to date. Those that have a horse named after them are listed with year of birth, and sire line. Some really surprised me. No Ulysses S. Grant??? No JFK? LBJ's horse didn't include his last name, and the only Clinton horse was named for Hillary, not Bill. Eisenhower's horse was named for him while he was a General, not when he was President.
1. George Washington 1889
by Red Squirrel by Black Squirrel
2. John Adams 1953 by
Bonded Bourbon by Bourbon Genius
3. Thomas Jefferson 1939 by Hallmark Peavine by Moreland
Peavine
4. James Madison 1939 by Cabin Choice by Peavine’s Highland
Chief
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
1956 Kalarama Bittersweet by
Kalarama Rex
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Polk
12. Zachary Taylor 1948 Golden Gait Suntan by Shinnston
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
1957 Intense Stonewall by Midnight King
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur c
1888 Peavine 85 by Rattler
22 & 24. Grover Cleveland
1959 Gallant American by Gallant
Knight
23. Benjamin Harrison
1991 Eventful Flight by Stonewall’s
Main Event
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
1912 Top Squirrel 2d by Top Squirrel
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
1925 Al Lee by Top Squirrel
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D Roosevelt
1936 by Anacacho Shamrock
33. Harry Truman
1947 Wilmar’s Stonewall by
Stonewall King
34,. General Eisenhower
1945 by Mighty Macarthur by Mighty Sensation
35. John Kennedy
36. Lyndon B ( Johnson)
1967 by the Social Line ;by
Stonewall Premier
37. Richard Nixon Dick
Nixon’s Mtn. Red Bird 1968 by Sgt.
Hendren Red Bird Peavine
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
1980 Mark s Revelation by Supreme
Revelation
40. Ronald Reagan
1966 Stonewall’s Beau Peavine by
Stonewall’s Golden Dream
41. George Bush
1994 Charming Bandit by Longview’s
Supreme
42. Bill Clinton (Hillary Clinton) 1994
Mac’s Genius Bourbon by Bourbon Genius
43. George W Bush
44. (Malone’s ) Barak Obama
2008 The Queen’s Black Beauty by
Winsdown Black Gold
45. Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan as a 2 year old
His entire show career was in Fine Harness
WGC Ronald Reagan
CH Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan
And the top Presidential horse was none other than CH Ronald Reagan, a World's Grand Champion Fine Harness horse, and twice Reserve World's Grand Champion. His namesake was a lover of horses, and often rode at his ranch in California. Here is the pedigree of the equine Ronald Reagan.
Stonewall's Golden Dream Stonewall King
Stonewall's Beau Peavine Silver Moon BHF
Marie Bosace BHF Beau Peavine
CH Ronald Reagan Iowana by Bourbon King
Kalarama Genius Kalarama Rex
Blessed Damozel Laetus by King 's Genius
San Sarene San Juan
Miss Frisco Gaines by All Peavine
Far Away Garfield may have been named for Garfield the cat rather than
President Garfield.
Far Away Thomas Jefferson
Both Far Away horses were sired by (SA) Tomcat
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