The old gray mare she aint what she used to be?
The Old Gray Mare
Nogle forfattere har sagt, at sangen stammer fra hesten Lady Suffolk, som var den første hest, der blev registreret som den første hest, der travede en mil på under to og et halvt minut. Det skete den 4. juli 1843 på væddeløbsbanen Beacon Course i Hoboken, New Jersey, da den var mere end ti år gammel. En forfatter tilskrev sangen til Stephen Foster, selv om komponisten normalt er angivet som ukendt. Det fremgår imidlertid af arkivalierne, at sangen opstod nogle få årtier senere i det 19. århundrede som en kampagnedigtning, der blev komponeret som et epitet om Baltimores borgmester Ferdinand Latrobe af Thomas Francis McNulty, der var politisk aktiv og udpeget af det demokratiske parti (USA). I bogen The Gallant Gray Trotter var Lady Suffolk med i billedet.
The Old Gray Mare
Some authors have said that the song originated based upon the performance of the horse Lady Suffolk, the first horse recorded as trotting a mile in less than two and a half minutes. It occurred on 4 July 1843 at the Beacon Course racetrack in Hoboken, New Jersey, when she was more than ten years old. One author attributed the song to Stephen Foster, although the composer is usually listed as unknown. The archival evidence, however, is that the song originated a few decades later in the nineteenth century as a campaign ditty, composed as an epithet of Baltimore mayor Ferdinand Latrobe by Democratic Party (United States) political operative and appointee Thomas Francis McNulty. The book The Gallant Gray Trotter featured Lady Suffolk.
The Old Gray Mare