Wintergreen (horse)
# Wintergreen (horse)

Wintergreen (1906–1914) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1909 Kentucky Derby and for being the first horse bred in Ohio to win the Derby. Wintergreen was bred and trained by Jerome "Rome" Respess at his Ohio stud farm. Respess was a multimillionaire owner of a brewing company and also owned Wintergreen's sire, Dick Welles — named after Richard H. Welles, later the father of Orson $Welles.^{:36}$

Wintergreen raced from ages two to seven years old but did not win any stakes races before or after the Kentucky Derby but was a stakes performer for most of his career.

Wintergreen was killed April 10, 1914, in a fire that consumed barn #18 at the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He had been gelded some years previously and was racing for D. Fisk.

## Pedigree

Pedigree of Wintergreen :

| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | King Eric 1887 | King Ernest | King Tom |
| - | - | - | - |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | King Eric 1887 | King Ernest | Ernestine |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | King Eric 1887 | Cyclone | Parmesan |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | King Eric 1887 | Cyclone | Typhoon |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | Tea's Over 1893 | Hanover | Hindoo |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | Tea's Over 1893 | Hanover | Bourbon Belle |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | Tea's Over 1893 | Tea Rose | King Alfonso |
| Sire Dick Welles 1900 | Tea's Over 1893 | Tea Rose | Tuberose |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Exile 1882 | Mortemer | Compiegne |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Exile 1882 | Mortemer | Comtesse |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Exile 1882 | Second Hand | Stockwell |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Exile 1882 | Second Hand | Gaiety |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Wildflower 1889 | Mr Pickwick | Hermit |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Wildflower 1889 | Mr Pickwick | Tomato |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Wildflower 1889 | Woodflower | The Ill-Used |
| Dam Winter 1896 | Wildflower 1889 | Woodflower | Woodbine |
