Typhoon II


Typhoon II was an American thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Tennessee and was the winner of the 1897 Kentucky Derby.
Typhoon won the Derby at 11-5 odds against the favored Ornament on a very muddy track. After his Derby win, Typhoon II was sold to Arthur Featherstone, owner of Bromley & CO. of Chicago, Illinois on August 1, 1897 for $12,000. He followed his Derby win by winning the Club Members' Handicap in St. Louis, Missouri but lost many races after his three-year-old season. The stallion's career declined in his fourth season, when he lost a race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track against only one other competitor.
Typhoon II was gelded in 1899 and was thereafter stabled at the Kenmore Farm in Lexington, a farm owned by Bromley & Co., to live the remainder of his life as a pensioner. By 1903, Featherstone ordered his trainer, Julius Bauer, to dispose of Typhoon II, as the horse's paddock was needed for another purpose. Bauer gave the horse to a friend in Lexington, who put him to work as a cart horse hauling hay for livestock.