of racehorses ever owned by one man." James R. Keene bred National Museum of Racing and Hall of Famer Kingston and owned Domino, as well as breeding and owning future Hall of Famer inductees Colin, Peter Pan, Commando, Maskette, and Sysonby. Keene owned six Belmont Stakes winners but at a time when transporting horses south to other racetracks via railroad was a long, costly, and often risky venture, he never entered his horses in the Kentucky Derby, and won the Preakness Stakes only once. He died on January 3, 1913, of an acute stomach ailment at Miss Alston's House for Private Patients in Manhattan. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. He was vice-Chairman of The Jockey Club at the time of his passing. Family In 1863 he married Sara Jay Daingerfield of Virginia with whom he had son Foxhall and a daughter, Jessica. Sara Keene died in 1916 and is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery next to her husband. Biographer Alden Hatch collaborated with Foxhall Keene to write James R. Keene's biography titled Full Tilt that was published in 1938 by Derrydale Press. Racing In 2019, James R. Keene was voted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as one of its esteemed Pillars of the Turf. Preakness Stakes winner 1894 : Assignee Belmont Stakes winners 1879 : Spendthrift 1901 : Commando 1904 : Delhi 1907 : Peter Pan 1908 : Colin 1910 : Sweep References External links Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf (2003) Eclipse Press Alden Hatch and Keene, Foxhall. Full Tilt. The Sporting Memoirs of Foxhall Keene (1938) Derrydale Press Dispersal of James R. Keene's racing operations 1838 births 1913 deaths Stockbrokers Stock and commodity market managers American racehorse owners and breeders Owners of Kentucky Derby winners British racehorse owners and breeders Sportspeople from London United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees People from Cedarhurst, New York 19th-century American businesspeople