title: Montrose (horse)
text: # Montrose (horse)
  
  Montrose (1884–1898) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best remembered for winning the 1887 Kentucky Derby. He was bred in Kentucky at Col. Milton Young's McGrathiana Stud and purchased by the Labold brothers from Cincinnati, Ohio. Ridden by African American Isaac Lewis in the Derby, the colt was trained by former jockey John McGinty.
  
  Montrose also won the Morrissey Stakes and Great Western Handicap when he was a four-year-old and won the Kearney Stakes run in Saratoga Springs, New York as a five-year-old. Montrose died on July 30, 1898, at the age of 14 years at the farm of Allen W. Thurman in Columbus, Ohio.
  
  ## Pedigree
  
  Pedigree of Montrose :
  
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Waverly 1870 | Australian | West Australian |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Waverly 1870 | Australian | Emilia |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Waverly 1870 | Cicily Jopson | Weatherbit |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Waverly 1870 | Cicily Jopson | Cestrea |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Kelpie 1866 | Bonnie Scotland | Iago |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Kelpie 1866 | Bonnie Scotland | Queen Mary |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Kelpie 1866 | Sister to Ruric | Sovereign |
  | Sire Duke of Montrose 1877 | Kelpie 1866 | Sister to Ruric | Levity |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Billet 1865 | Voltigeur | Voltaire |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Billet 1865 | Voltigeur | Martha Lynn |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Billet 1865 | Calcutta | Flatcatcher |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Billet 1865 | Calcutta | Miss Martin |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Dora 1873 | Pat Malloy | Lexington |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Dora 1873 | Pat Malloy | Gloriana |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Dora 1873 | Etta Jr | Bill Alexander |
  | Dam Patti Unknown | Dora 1873 | Etta Jr | Etta |
  