I was a great fighter .I took my boxing name from a famous racehorse.I am in the Boxing Hall of Fame...I am ?
hh you are right with Jack Dillon as usual... But the trotters name was LOU DILLON,who was the first trotter to run a 2.00 mile in 1903...hh, just when I was feeling my oats...Lost again...b.b.
Dillon's real name was Ernest Culter Price. He took his "Jack Dillon" name from the famous racehorse, Sidney Dillon. Price worked at the farm/stable where the horse was housed. At his first fight, Price appeared very nervous. When asked his name, he said Sidney Dillon. The referee misunderstood him, and bawled out 'Jack Dillon' (May 20, 1916 Tacoma Daily News). Lou Dillon (1898, near Santa Ynez, California—January 15, 1925, near Santa Barbara, California) was a Standardbred trotting horse. She was the first trotter to trot a mile in under 2:00, at Memphis in 1903. The mare Lou Dillon, by Sidney Dillon out of Lou Milton, was foaled in 1898 by the Pierce Brothers Stock Farm near Santa Ynez, California. She was a two-time great-great-granddaughter of Hambletonian. Her owner was Henry Pierce, who never raced her professionally. She was trained initially by Charles Tanner, who drove her in many amateur events. Later her workouts under Millard Sanders (1856-1928) were sensational, and she attracted a lot of attention. She was high strung and hard to handle. Sanders was the only man who knew her.
