{"id":11959,"count":3,"description":"Fair Play (1905\u20131929) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so as a sire.\nHis grandsire was Spendthrift, whose grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion West Australian.\nWhile successful on the track until an injury cut short his racing career, Fair Play gained his most fame as a sire.\nAmong his better progeny were:\nFollowing the death of owner August Belmont, Jr. in 1924, Fair Play was sold to Joseph E. Widener, proprietor of Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained until his death on December 17, 1929. Widener, a dedicated horseman, buried Fair Play in the Elmendorf Farm cemetery and erected a nearly life-size bronze statue at the head of his grave. ","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/fair-play\/","name":"Fair Play","slug":"fair-play","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}