Vagrancy (racehorse) colt that often demonstrated his brilliance by ascertaining victories in sprints, one-mile events, and marathons. He finished second in the Ascot Gold Cup, all told winning eight of fifteen starts and being recorded as England's champion three-year old of 1948. Vagrancy was rated the American Champion 3-Year-Old Filly in 1942 and the American Champion Older Female Horse in 1943. Vagrancy (racehorse) Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Vagrancy was a bay filly born in 1939 out of Valkyr by Man o' War. She raced for Belair Stud and was trained for most of her career by “Sunny” Jim
HMS Racehorse (1757) HMS Racehorse (1757) HMS "Racehorse" was an 18-gun ship-rigged (i.e. three-masted) sloop of the Royal Navy, later refitted as a survey vessel. She was originally the 18-gun French privateer "Marquis de Vaudreuil", captured from the French in 1757 during the Seven Years' War, and purchased for the British Navy on 28 April 1757. As she was a three-masted vessel, she was described as a 'frigate', but as she mounted just 18 guns, she was actually registered as a sloop. In this role, she served her first commission (from June 1757 to 1758) under Commander Francis Burslem in home waters. She