coffin bone. This led to septicemia, and his condition worsened before he was humanely euthanized in March 1899. Following the creation of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Hanover was part of the first group of horses inducted in 1955. Pedigree Sire line tree Hanover Buck Massie Jake Buckleya Halma Alan-a-Dale Barnsdale Smart Set Acacia Oversight Mirebeau Insight Hammon Handsome The Commoner Simon D. Johnnie Blake Doctor Boots Countless Parmer Great Britain Ben Holladay Handspring Major Daingerfield Handout Trouble Heywood Palo Alto Hamburg Inflexible Textile Pluvious Strephon Dandelion Battleaxe Burgomaster Bourgeois Burgoright Glasgow Sebastolbol Portugal Orison The Irishman Baby Wolf Hillside Borrow Buskin Prince Eugene Happy Go Lucky Handball Handsel Grover Hughes Colonel Livingstone Sanders Half Time Handcuff David Garrick Star of Hanover Withers Admonition Holstein Abe Frank Black Stock Mentor Wise Counsellor Good Advice Supreme Court Deliberator Barre Granite Kaffir Kaffir Boy King Hanover Prince Ahmed Luck and Charity Serpent Yankee Dinna Ken Yankee Gun Joe Madden Marse Abe Marse Hughes Naushon Nonpareil Penobscot See also List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses References "The Spell of the Turf" by Samuel C. Hildreth and James R. Crowell, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1926 Hanover's page in the Hall of Fame 1884 racehorse births 1899 racehorse deaths Racehorses trained in the United States Racehorses bred in Kentucky Belmont Stakes winners American Thoroughbred Horse of the Year United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees United States Champion Thoroughbred Sires Thoroughbred family 21 Byerley Turk sire line