Image / Photograph of the race horse Silkwood

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Title: Photograph of the race horse Silkwood
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1893
Publication Information: California State University, Fullerton
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fullerton, University Archives and Special Collections
Collection: Smart Studio photographs
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Silkwood, a "coal black pacer" was the most famous race horse in Orange County in the 1890s. Driven by owner Jacob Willits of Santa Ana, he set the Pacific Coast record in 1894, posting a 2:07 mile in his "steady, clock-like stride," as historian Jim Sleeper described it.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c8251gzk
CFLS_105
Binder number 158
Subject: Silkwood
Willits, Jacob
Race horses
Place: Santa Ana (Calif.)

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