Andrew Jackson?

Question

My daughter is in a contest for her 2006-2007 year book and the thing is that she has to know is, What kind of horse did Andrew Jackson have?

Answer 1

Aha! This one I had to dig for, but with Google, much is possible!

Andrew Jackson bred Tennessee Thoroughbreds.

Here's the info:
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As early as 1790, a number of thoroughbred stallions were brought into the Watauga and Holston settlements, and between 1790 and 1795, the Knoxville Register and Star Gazette advertised at least nine stallions as standing in what is now East Tennessee. Tradition says that the first thoroughbred stallion brought into Middle Tennessee was Grey Medley. This stallion stood the 1800 season at the Gallatin Road farm of William Donelson, a brother of Rachel Jackson, and for several years thereafter at the farm of Dr. R. D. Barry in Sumner County. Part of this farm was later Walter O. Parmer's Edenwold Stud, one of the few thoroughbred horse nurseries still operating in Tennessee in 1910.

In Andrew Jackson's day, the Tennessee Thoroughbred had no superior in the United States. General Jackson bred and owned some of the finest. Two of his best racers were Thruxton, foaled in 1800, and Pacolet, in 1808. In the spring of 1808, a proposed match at the Clover Bottom race track between Jackson's Thruxton and Joseph Irwin's Plowboy indirectly led to the fatal duel between Jackson and Irwin's son-in-law, Charles Dickinson. The latter, an excellent shot, provoked Jackson into the duel, in which Dickinson was killed, by making scurrilous remarks about Rachel Jackson and by complaining about how a forfeit Irwin paid had been handled by Jackson.

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And here's a little more:

In 1804 the first official horse race in Tennessee was held in Gallatin. Andrew and Rachel Jackson attended the race, in which Jackson ran his horse Indian Queen against Dr. R. D. Barry's horse Polly Medley. Although Jackson's horse lost the race, he became known as the leading breeder and racer in the state. He soon purchased a famous Virginia thoroughbred, Truxton, and Greyhound, a horse which had previously beaten both Indian Queen and Truxton.

Jackson purchased an interest in one of Tennessee's most important racetracks in 1805 at Clover Bottom. By 1807 Clover Bottom, Gallatin, and Nashville each had a Jockey Club. Jackson's horses ran several races at Clover Bottom before he sold most of his horses in 1816. After becoming president, Jackson took three horses to Washington to race them there. He was the last president to race horses in the nation's capital.

From: http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=H071
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Thanks. That was a fun search!

Answer 2

May 11, 1805 Andrew Jackson purchased a stud horse - Truxton

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson was famous for breeding and racing thoroughbreds. He raced his thoroughbred Indian Queen at the first horse race in Tennessee at Gallatin, Tennessee in 1804. He was also the last president to race horses in the capitol.
When he first joined the fight of the revolutionary war at age 13, he rode a wild pony. I could not find what kind of horse he rode later on.

Answer 4

A Tennessee Walking Horse, love.

Answer 5

Go to the Library of Congress' website at: loc.gov and post the question on their query site. Not only will you get the answer you are looking for, but in all reality you will probably be inundated with knowledge about Andrew Jackson that you never knew.

Answer 6

truxton was the horse's name but i believe it was a tennessee walking horse