I'm trying to find people who had ancestors connected with THOROUGHBRED horseracing and breeding in NJ. If you are tracing your ancestry and come up with info that a grandparent, or great-grandparent worked at a track or was a horse-racing fan and you have evidence of this, please share it with me for a research project. I am a legitimate journalist, not "aspiring writer". As a guide, there once were racetracks located in Secaucus, Linden, Paterson and Gutenberg (in north Jersey); Camden-Philadelphia and Gloucester in south Jersey. Also would like to hear about your family's connection to the early days of racing at Garden State Park, Monmouth Park, Atlantic City. Please reply to [email protected] with "horse racing" in subjejct line. Thank you for your efforts!

[email protected] wrote: >I'm trying to find people who had ancestors connected with >THOROUGHBRED horseracing and breeding in NJ. If you are tracing your >ancestry and come up with info that a grandparent, or >great-grandparent worked at a track or was a horse-racing fan and you Not a relative, and I'm not sure if they would have been considered what we call thoroughbreds today-- but at least 2 of the NJ Signers of the Declaration of Independence were horse fanciers. John Hart's horse, Northumberland, gets high praise in many John Hart biographies. The mare 'Bulle Rock' is mentioned in Hammond's biography of the Signer. Hammond prints this excerpt from the Pennsylvania Chronicle in 1773; "To Cover this Season, the Famous Grey Horse, NORTHUMBERLAND (Commonly called the IRISH HORSE) At Forty-five Shilling the Season, and Twenty-two and Six-pence the single leap, Money to be paid before the Mares are taken away, or Three Pounds, to wait one Year; He is full Fifteen Hands Two Inches high, free from all Blemishes, and is allowed by all judges, to be the best made Horse ever imported; he was bred by Lord Mazarine, and got by the famous horse, BUSTARD, out of Daughter of OLD CRAB, Grand Dam by OLD BABRAM; he is a Brother to FREEMASON, and Lord Mont Eagle's famous Horse BOTTOM, who kept the Course of Kildare, in Ireland, for three Years successively; his performances in England, Ireland and America, are well known to all Sportsmen; he is very sure, and his Colts are allowed to be the best made of any in America. He is kept at JOHN HART'S, Esq: in Hunterdon County, New-Jersey, where good Pastures for Mares are provided at a moderate Price" Richard Stockton was also known as a breeder & lover of fast horses. There is probably more about him in other sources, but I don't have any great suggestions off hand. There is also likely some historian at Morven, Stockton's home, that could shed some more light on his horse dealings. http://www.historicmorven.org/ >have evidence of this, please share it with me for a research project. >I am a legitimate journalist, not "aspiring writer". But you *were* an aspiring writer at some time, weren't you? -snip- > Please reply to [email protected] with "horse racing" >in subjejct line. Thank you for your efforts! Reap as you sow-- you'll have to read the newsgroup to see my reply. Jim