Vagrancy (racehorse) 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 Fitzsimmons. She was a promising winner at age two and then ran twenty-one times at age three, when she was named the 1942 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She was also the champion "handicap" filly that season after beating the older crops in head-to-head races. At age three, she bloomed into the champion of her crop, winning nine stakes races
Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer) Goddard Iselin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, J. K. L. Ross, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Robert T. Davies and Joseph E. Widener. Henry McDaniel died at a hospital in Coral Gables, Florida on January 24, 1948 at age 80. He was buried next to his wife Leonora in the Forest Home Cemetery in Chicago. Following its formation, Henry McDaniel was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer) In a career that spanned 64 years (1884-1947), the most famous of the horses Henry McDaniel trained was Exterminator, winner of the 1918