It never ceases to amaze me where tidbits of horse history pop up. In June of 2013, I wrote a blog about English suffragette Emily Davison who threw herself in front of King George V’s horse Anmer in 1913 in the Epsom Derby and died a few days later. My research never did reveal what happened to Anmer after this tragedy until…
While walking in a very historic graveyard this past weekend at a unique little corner of the world called Chaffey’s Locks’s, north east of Kingston, Ontario, I saw a plaque that finally cleared up the mystery. Apparently, according to the plaque, three years after Epsom the King gave Anmer to Ontario’s Department of Agriculture and the horse became a leading sire in Canada. He lived, according to the plaque, at Palmer Wright’s Farm at the outlet of Rock Creek, Lake Opinicon.
