
1893 photo of Broomstick’s dam Elf (GB) and granddam Sylvabelle (GB) as published in Memories of Men and Horses (1924) by William Allison.
1893 photo of Broomstick’s dam Elf (GB) and granddam Sylvabelle (GB) as published in Memories of Men and Horses (1924) by William Allison.
Photograph of Broomstick (1901 b. c. Ben Brush-Elf (GB) by Galliard (GB) as published in Metropolitan Magazine (Vol. XXI, No. II), November 1904.
On January 9, 1917, the seven-year-old veteran campaigner Leochares (Broomstick) carried 130 lbs. while scoring a runaway ten-length win in a purse at New Orleans’ Crescent City Race Course. His final time of 1:12 equaled the track record set by the Bonnie Joe mare Useeit on January 29, 1915.
Fresh off of this outstanding effort, Leochares would take to the track again at Crescent City on February 16 in the six furlong Momus Highweight Handicap, where despite shouldering a crushing burden of 145 lbs., he would once again equal the track record in recording a half-length win over J. J. Murdock (Contestor).
Leochares would ultimately set or equal at least the following records over the course of his career:
Thoroughbred Record (Vol. 18, No. 18), 10/31/1914