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
HMS Racehorse (1806) tea and 8907 Spanish dollars (worth approximately £2226). On 15 August 1813 "Racehorse" sailed from the Cape of Good Hope as escort to several vessels, including bound for St Helena and Britain. "Racehorse" was paid off into ordinary at Portsmouth in 1813. Between February 1816 and July 1818 she underwent repair and fitting for sea there. She was recommissioned in May under Commander George Pryse Campbell, who took command on 5 May, for the Mediterranean. "Racehorse" came under the command of Commander Charles Abbot on 27 January 1821 when Campbell was promoted to post-captain. "Racehorse" returned to Britain in 1822