Lookout (USA)
1890 – After November 5, 1898
Troubadour (USA) x Christina (USA), by King Alfonso (USA)
American Family 13
1890 – After November 5, 1898
Troubadour (USA) x Christina (USA), by King Alfonso (USA)
American Family 13
Lookout had enough speed at 2 to defeat older males in an all-aged sprint, but his reputation was largely confined to the Midwest. At 3, he set a mile track record at Montgomery Park in Memphis and was an impressive wire-to-wire winner of the Kentucky Derby. He was then prepared for the much more lucrative American Derby at Washington Park but began to show signs of resenting training and ended up running unplaced behind his stablemate Boundless, who had been third at Louisville. By age 5, he was a gelding and running in selling races. He also ran over fences but was not a success as a steeplechaser. He disappears from the records after changing hands for a mere US$65 in November 1898,
Race record
66 starts, 17 wins, 12 seconds, 5 thirds, US$17,350
1892:
1893:
1895:
As an individual
A big, flashy chestnut with a blaze and three white stockings, Lookout was held to closely resemble his sire Troubadour. He had excellent legs and powerful hindquarters. He was a free-running horse with a long, low stride who sometimes resented restraint. He became more willful and difficult to train as he got older. By the time he reached 4, his disposition was described as “diabolical,” and he was barred from racing at Hawthorne on May 25, 1894. He was gelded in an attempt to render him more tractable. He developed a splint in the spring of 1897 and had to be taken out of training, while he was entered in at least one event after that, he does not appear to have won again.
Connections
Bred by the Scoggan Brothers, Lookout was sold as a yearling to Captain John M. Lettrell for US$1,100. Lettrell died before the colt ever raced, and J. E. Cushing & J. Orth purchased Lookout from his estate for US$1,125. The colt was trained by William McDaniels. At 4, Lookout was gelded and sent up to Canada with John Nixon of Toronto, Ontario, for schooling over fences. He was later sold to Joseph E. Seagram. By June 1897, he had passed to the ownership of J. R. Walker. On November 8, 1898, the Windsor Star reported that Lookout had been sold on November 5 to L. Reinhardt, Jr., for US$65.
Pedigree notes
Sired by 1886 Suburban Handicap winner Troubadour, Lookout is inbred 3x3 to the important 19th-century sire Phaeton and 4x3 to 16-time American champion sire Lexington. His dam Christina is a full sister to 1880 Ashland Oaks winner Lavacca and a half sister to multiple juvenile stakes winner La Favorita (by Planet). Christina, in turn, was produced from the Lexington mare Luileme, whose half sister Carolin (by Scythian) produced 1880 Flash Stakes winner By the Way (by Bonnie Scotland) and is the second dam of 1897 Alabama Stakes winner Poetess and 1901 Annual Champion Stakes winner Maid of Harlem.
Luileme is out of Rosette (by Yorkshire), whose half sister Lindora (by Lexington) is the second dam of 1876 Kentucky Derby winner Vagrant and 1885 Alabama Stakes winner Ida Hope. Lindora, in turn, is out of the Medoc mare Picayune. The family cannot be connected with certainty to any of the families in the Bruce Lowe numbering system; however, evidence collected by historian Fairfax Harrison suggests that the female line traces back to a daughter of the Godolphin Arabian known as the Randolph of Chatsworth Mare via a great-great-granddaughter named Fluvia (by Meade's Celer).
Race record
66 starts, 17 wins, 12 seconds, 5 thirds, US$17,350
1892:
- Won Minneapolis Stakes (USA, 5.5FD, Hamline)
- 2nd Turf Exchange Stakes (USA, 4FD, Montgomery Park)
- 3rd Merchants' Hotel Handicap (USA, 5FD, Hamline)
- 3rd Gaston Hotel Stakes (USA, 5FD, Montgomery Park)
- Also set a new track record of 1:13 for 6 furlongs at Hawthorne.
1893:
- Won Kentucky Derby (USA, 10FD, Churchill Downs)
- Won Gibson Stakes (USA, 8FD, Montgomery Park; new track record 1:42-3/4)
- Won Annual Stakes (USA, 7FD, Hawthorne)
1895:
- 3rd Toronto Cup (CAN, 10FD, Old Woodbine)
As an individual
A big, flashy chestnut with a blaze and three white stockings, Lookout was held to closely resemble his sire Troubadour. He had excellent legs and powerful hindquarters. He was a free-running horse with a long, low stride who sometimes resented restraint. He became more willful and difficult to train as he got older. By the time he reached 4, his disposition was described as “diabolical,” and he was barred from racing at Hawthorne on May 25, 1894. He was gelded in an attempt to render him more tractable. He developed a splint in the spring of 1897 and had to be taken out of training, while he was entered in at least one event after that, he does not appear to have won again.
Connections
Bred by the Scoggan Brothers, Lookout was sold as a yearling to Captain John M. Lettrell for US$1,100. Lettrell died before the colt ever raced, and J. E. Cushing & J. Orth purchased Lookout from his estate for US$1,125. The colt was trained by William McDaniels. At 4, Lookout was gelded and sent up to Canada with John Nixon of Toronto, Ontario, for schooling over fences. He was later sold to Joseph E. Seagram. By June 1897, he had passed to the ownership of J. R. Walker. On November 8, 1898, the Windsor Star reported that Lookout had been sold on November 5 to L. Reinhardt, Jr., for US$65.
Pedigree notes
Sired by 1886 Suburban Handicap winner Troubadour, Lookout is inbred 3x3 to the important 19th-century sire Phaeton and 4x3 to 16-time American champion sire Lexington. His dam Christina is a full sister to 1880 Ashland Oaks winner Lavacca and a half sister to multiple juvenile stakes winner La Favorita (by Planet). Christina, in turn, was produced from the Lexington mare Luileme, whose half sister Carolin (by Scythian) produced 1880 Flash Stakes winner By the Way (by Bonnie Scotland) and is the second dam of 1897 Alabama Stakes winner Poetess and 1901 Annual Champion Stakes winner Maid of Harlem.
Luileme is out of Rosette (by Yorkshire), whose half sister Lindora (by Lexington) is the second dam of 1876 Kentucky Derby winner Vagrant and 1885 Alabama Stakes winner Ida Hope. Lindora, in turn, is out of the Medoc mare Picayune. The family cannot be connected with certainty to any of the families in the Bruce Lowe numbering system; however, evidence collected by historian Fairfax Harrison suggests that the female line traces back to a daughter of the Godolphin Arabian known as the Randolph of Chatsworth Mare via a great-great-granddaughter named Fluvia (by Meade's Celer).