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Mark-Ye-Well Sire Bull Lea Grandsire Bull Dog Dam Mar-Kell Damsire Blenheim II Sex Stallion Foaled 1949 Country United States Colour Bay Breeder Calumet Farm Owner Calumet Farms Trainer Ben A. Jones & Horace A. Jones Record 40: 14-2-4 Earnings $581,910 Major wins Arlington Classic (1952)
American Derby (1952)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1952)
San Fernando Stakes (1953)
Santa Anita Handicap (1953)
Santa Anita Maturity (1953)
San Antonio Handicap (1954)
San Marcos Handicap (1954)
Laurance Armour Memorial Handicap (1955)
Stars and Stripes Handicap (1955)Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Mark-Ye-Well (1949-1970) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Calumet Farm, he was sired by their five-time North American Champion Sire, Bull Lea. Mark-Ye-Well was out of Mar-Kell, Calumet's excellent racing mare who was the 1943 American Champion Older Female Horse.
Trained by the father and son team of Ben and Jimmy Jones, Mark-Ye-Well was ridden by Eddie Arcaro in most of his major races. At age two, the colt had to be taken out of training as a result of a stifle joint problem and did not return to racing until February 1952. Brought back slowly, the then three-year-old colt did not compete in any of the 1952 U.S. Triple Crown races, but by mid-year had developed into one of the top runners in his age group in the United States, winning important races such as the Arlington Classic, American Derby, and the Lawrence Realization Stakes.
Mark-Ye-Well was sent to race in California in 1953, where he won the Santa Anita Maturity, the San Fernando Stakes, and the state's richest and most important race, the Santa Anita Handicap. His win in the Santa Anita Handicap was the first for Calumet Farm after three previous tries. He then was sent to compete in the Eastern United States but developed a quarter crack that hampered his performance.
Sent back to start the 1954 racing season in California, the five-year-old Mark-Ye-Well won the San Antonio and San Marcos Handicaps. At Chicago's Arlington Park, he won the Stars and Stripes Handicap and the Laurance Armour Memorial Handicap.
He was retired to stud duty at Calumet Farm beginning with the 1956 season. Less than successful, Mark-Ye-Well sired only three stakes winners before he was sold to breeders in Scandinavia.
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Categories:- 1949 racehorse births
- 1970 racehorse deaths
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- American racehorses
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