Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Oxbow (horse)

Oxbow (horse)

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 17, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 20:31, 25 April 2014 (UTC)



Oxbow (foaled March 26, 2010) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2013 Preakness Stakes. A bay colt sired by Awesome Again, a winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic and out of a full sister to Tiznow, another Breeders' Cup Classic winner, he was sold as a yearling at Keeneland for $250,000. Oxbow is owned by Brad Kelley of Calumet Farm, was trained by D. Wayne Lukas, and was ridden in his Triple Crown races by Gary Stevens. His Preakness win was Calumet Farm's first win in a Triple Crown race in 45 years and breeder Richard Santulli's first win in a Triple Crown classic race. It also was Stevens' first Triple Crown win since 2001, following his return to riding in early 2013 after a seven-year retirement, and Lukas' first Triple Crown win since 2000. Oxbow's second-place finish in the Belmont Stakes in June made him only the third horse to have $1 million in purse wins for 2013. Later in the season, he was pulled up shortly after finishing fourth in the Haskell Invitational, whereupon he was found to have suffered a soft tissue injury, was taken out of competition for the remainder of his three-year-old season, and retired to stud in October 2013.
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 * Main editors: Montanabw, Tigerboy 1966, Craiglduncan, Froggerlaura
 * Promoted: 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: Date relevance, May 17, 2014 is the Day of the 2014 Preakness Stakes, Oxbow is the horse that won the race in 2013 and the is the only FA of any recent Preakness winner, possibly the only FA of any Preakness winner. A good story featuring a cast of interesting human characters.


 * Support as nominator. Montanabw (talk) 23:09, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment by nominator: Possibly would look better with a right-facing image, for which I propose the racing image posted to the left as an alternative. Whichever one works.   Montanabw (talk) 23:37, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. I like the 2nd image idea better. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:07, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. I like the idea of a TFA that relates to a current event on the same day. So why not? Minima  ©  ( talk ) 17:46, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, racing picture preferred, especially on the left, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:38, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment by nominator: As it appears there is a strong consensus to swap images, I have done so, but kept both below for comparison by any other reviewers.  Montanabw (talk) 03:50, 16 April 2014 (UTC)