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By ANN BARKER
Arund«l Newspaper* Special Writer
Throughout the annals of American steeplechase history there have been but 10 horses to reach that supreme site: The National Museum of Racing’s Hall Of Fame at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The complex intrigue and intricacy of thoroughbred racing and breeding has produced many fleet horses from the original three English foundation sires (the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Barb and the Byerly Turk). And often as not, the sport of racing over fences has been subject to some very obscure breeding lines.
Not so in the case of Oedipus, who was a brown colt foaled in 1946 by Blue Larkspur • Be Like Mom by Sickle, whose breeding line fairly sparkled with stakes winning kin.
Bred at Col. E. R. Bradley’s Idle Hour Farm in Kentucky, Oedipus was consigned for sale upon the complete dispersal of Idle Hour and purchased by Ogden Phipps. As a 2-year-old the colt gave no evidence of his breeding, nor did he in any manner reflect the abilities of his illustrious ancestors. After six attempts on the flat he was gelded and turned over to Mrs. Phipps and her jumping trainer, G. H. “Pete” Bostwick.
F’inding a niche that was more than suitable. Oedipus raced in the old rose silks of Mrs. Phipps for six consecutive years, winning stakes in five of those seasons and retiring with earnings of $134,295. He was
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