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Luke Blackburn

A bay foul, Luke Blackburn was sired by Bonnie Scotland and his dam was Nevada out of perhaps the most influential stallion America ever produced, the great Lexington. The Dywer Brothers of Brooklyn purchased him for $2,500 in 1880. New York Public Library Digital Collections

Luke Blackburn and his groom, NYPL Collections