Sir Barton: Forgotten Hero
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John E. Madden was the consummate horseman. He bred champions. He broke, trained and raced many of the good ones himself. The shrewdest horse trader of his era, he cashed them in too.
In the early decades of the 20th century his Hamburg Place Farm in Lexington, Ky., was the celebrated birthplace of Kentucky Derby winners Old Rosebud, Paul Jones, Zev, and Flying Ebony.