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...Horses trained by Hughes won many major races, including the Whitney at Saratoga and Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey. Among the jockeys Hughes worked with was Amsterdam native Louis Hildebrandt
Horse trainer a native of Amsterdam
By Bob Cudmore
Grace Bergen of Amsterdam has contributed an obituary of Amsterdam horse trainer Hollie Hughes, who died at the age of 92 in 1981. At the time of his death, Hughes was living in East Rockaway on Long Island. He was buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Fort Johnson.
Hughes was born in Amsterdam, the son of Edgar and Almeda Miller Hughes. He married an Amsterdam woman, Anne Mitchell. He went to work fulltime for the Sanford family stables when he was 17.
Stephen Sanford, the carpet mill executive, created his Hurricana Farm in the town of Amsterdam in the late 1870s. To this day, that stretch of what is now Route 30 is swept by winds. Stephen’s son John and grandson Stephen or “Laddie” continued to operate the stables until 1976. A few of the buildings remain. The farm itself—later known as the Sanford Stud Farm—encompassed much of the area on Route 30 that has been commercially developed in recent years.
Hughes rose quickly through the ranks of groom, foreman and assistant trainer and became head trainer in 1914 when he was only 26.
Hughes trained George Smith, the horse that won the 1916 Kentucky Derby bearing the Sanford colors, purple and gold, today the school colors of Amsterdam High. According to the New York Breds web site, Hughes had trained George Smith but was serving in the U.S. Army when the horse actually won the Derby.
Horses trained by Hughes won many major races, including the Whitney at Saratoga and Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey. Among the jockeys Hughes worked with was Amsterdam native Louis Hildebrandt, who still lives in the area and who has written a book about his career as a jockey called “Riders Up.” Hildebrandt rode the Hughes trained horse Roundview to victory in the Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey and the Flamingo in Florida. Roundview won the Whitney in 1949, after Hildebrandt retired from horse racing.
According to Hildebrandt, Hughes was an astute real estate investor, buying property around Lynnwood, Long Island where he lived during the Second World War and selling the property after the war.
Hughes was inducted into the National Racing Hall of Fame in 1973 and a New York Bred race is named in his honor at Aqueduct.
Historians Go Fund Me
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022
SANDY FAMILY
Amsterdam native Cheryl Sandy Hallett of West Palm Beach, Florida has begun compiling a family history for her father’s eightieth birthday. One of her father Ed’s nine siblings was George Sandy, Jr., who operated Sandy’s Coffee at 66 Center Street on the South Side.
Information surrounding her grandparents, Hallett said, is limited. They were George Sandy, Sr. and his wife Jennie or Joan Costanzo.
Hallett wrote, “They ran a grocery on Bridge St. (which may have been owned by Jennie's parents Pasquale and Carmella Costanzo) and then on Broad Street next door to their home. I've heard that they helped the Italians when they arrived in America and the Catena family has said that if it wasn't for George, Senior, they wouldn't have survived here.”
ROCK IN THE RIVER
A recent column mentioned an island in the Mohawk River opposite Elk Street in Amsterdam that author Tony Pacelli wrote was a popular spot for summer gardens.
In his book “Past and Present,” Pacelli recalled a landmark in the river itself, “the rock” in the river near Vrooman Avenue.
Pacelli wrote, “You had to wade 20 to 25 feet until you located it. Youngsters 10 to 16 used to dive and flip off the rock and swim to the buoy in the middle of the river and back. This was a feat that was noticed and admired by the clique.”
Hollie Hughes
https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/trainer/hollie-hughes
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2022
From the Archives March 26, 2021-Episode 363-How the Adirondack forest preserve was motorized. The guest is John Warren, founder and editor of New York Almanack.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Amsterdam remembers Teddy Roosevelt
The junior high was dedicated to the former President on October 2, 1925 with the main address given by state education commissioner Dr. Frank P. Graves.
Friday, April 22, 2022-Episode 419-English classics professor Edmund Richardson is author of The King’s Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria, the story of a deserter who discovered a civilization founded by Alexander the Great in Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C.
Robert Yates, John Lansing & The Constitution
by Peter Hess
New York Almanack
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2022/04/robert-yates-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/#more-75288
Mohawk Valley Weather, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of rain showers before 2am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. West wind 14 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 48. West wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
On The Historians Production Schedule
April 29-Episode 420-Paul Craddock is author of Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery; May 6-Episode 421-Chris Lamb, author of Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY — The operator of the Glenville Business and Technology Park is suing a company it alleges signed a lease…
SCHENECTADY — The operator of the Glenville Business and Technology Park is suing a company it alleges signed a lease…
https://dailygazette.com/
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https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown Town Board passes solar farm zoning rules, again
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...Horses trained by Hughes won many major races, including the Whitney at Saratoga and Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey. Among the jockeys Hughes worked with was Amsterdam native Louis Hildebrandt
Horse trainer a native of Amsterdam
By Bob Cudmore
Grace Bergen of Amsterdam has contributed an obituary of Amsterdam horse trainer Hollie Hughes, who died at the age of 92 in 1981. At the time of his death, Hughes was living in East Rockaway on Long Island. He was buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Fort Johnson.
Hughes was born in Amsterdam, the son of Edgar and Almeda Miller Hughes. He married an Amsterdam woman, Anne Mitchell. He went to work fulltime for the Sanford family stables when he was 17.
Stephen Sanford, the carpet mill executive, created his Hurricana Farm in the town of Amsterdam in the late 1870s. To this day, that stretch of what is now Route 30 is swept by winds. Stephen’s son John and grandson Stephen or “Laddie” continued to operate the stables until 1976. A few of the buildings remain. The farm itself—later known as the Sanford Stud Farm—encompassed much of the area on Route 30 that has been commercially developed in recent years.
Hughes rose quickly through the ranks of groom, foreman and assistant trainer and became head trainer in 1914 when he was only 26.
Hughes trained George Smith, the horse that won the 1916 Kentucky Derby bearing the Sanford colors, purple and gold, today the school colors of Amsterdam High. According to the New York Breds web site, Hughes had trained George Smith but was serving in the U.S. Army when the horse actually won the Derby.
Horses trained by Hughes won many major races, including the Whitney at Saratoga and Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey. Among the jockeys Hughes worked with was Amsterdam native Louis Hildebrandt, who still lives in the area and who has written a book about his career as a jockey called “Riders Up.” Hildebrandt rode the Hughes trained horse Roundview to victory in the Monmouth Handicap in New Jersey and the Flamingo in Florida. Roundview won the Whitney in 1949, after Hildebrandt retired from horse racing.
According to Hildebrandt, Hughes was an astute real estate investor, buying property around Lynnwood, Long Island where he lived during the Second World War and selling the property after the war.
Hughes was inducted into the National Racing Hall of Fame in 1973 and a New York Bred race is named in his honor at Aqueduct.
Historians Go Fund Me
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022
SANDY FAMILY
Amsterdam native Cheryl Sandy Hallett of West Palm Beach, Florida has begun compiling a family history for her father’s eightieth birthday. One of her father Ed’s nine siblings was George Sandy, Jr., who operated Sandy’s Coffee at 66 Center Street on the South Side.
Information surrounding her grandparents, Hallett said, is limited. They were George Sandy, Sr. and his wife Jennie or Joan Costanzo.
Hallett wrote, “They ran a grocery on Bridge St. (which may have been owned by Jennie's parents Pasquale and Carmella Costanzo) and then on Broad Street next door to their home. I've heard that they helped the Italians when they arrived in America and the Catena family has said that if it wasn't for George, Senior, they wouldn't have survived here.”
ROCK IN THE RIVER
A recent column mentioned an island in the Mohawk River opposite Elk Street in Amsterdam that author Tony Pacelli wrote was a popular spot for summer gardens.
In his book “Past and Present,” Pacelli recalled a landmark in the river itself, “the rock” in the river near Vrooman Avenue.
Pacelli wrote, “You had to wade 20 to 25 feet until you located it. Youngsters 10 to 16 used to dive and flip off the rock and swim to the buoy in the middle of the river and back. This was a feat that was noticed and admired by the clique.”
Hollie Hughes
https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/trainer/hollie-hughes
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2022
From the Archives March 26, 2021-Episode 363-How the Adirondack forest preserve was motorized. The guest is John Warren, founder and editor of New York Almanack.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Amsterdam remembers Teddy Roosevelt
The junior high was dedicated to the former President on October 2, 1925 with the main address given by state education commissioner Dr. Frank P. Graves.
Friday, April 22, 2022-Episode 419-English classics professor Edmund Richardson is author of The King’s Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria, the story of a deserter who discovered a civilization founded by Alexander the Great in Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C.
Robert Yates, John Lansing & The Constitution
by Peter Hess
New York Almanack
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2022/04/robert-yates-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/#more-75288
Mohawk Valley Weather, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of rain showers before 2am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. West wind 14 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 48. West wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
On The Historians Production Schedule
April 29-Episode 420-Paul Craddock is author of Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery; May 6-Episode 421-Chris Lamb, author of Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Daily Gazette
Glenville industrial park sues would-be tenant that didn’t move in
SCHENECTADY — The operator of the Glenville Business and Technology Park is suing a company it alleges signed a lease…
SCHENECTADY — The operator of the Glenville Business and Technology Park is suing a company it alleges signed a lease…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Construction of Montgomery County SPCA shelter coming this year
AMSTERDAM — After over a decade of planning and fundraising, the Montgomery County Society for the...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown Town Board passes solar farm zoning rules, again
by Jason Subik
https://www.leaderherald.com/