William Solomon, owner of Pin Oak Lane Farm in Shrewsbury Township, is seen with Deposit Ticket in 2004. Deposit Ticket's offspring earned $1.4 million during the year. Pin Oak was the birthplace of 1992 Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee (see photo below). Background posts: Glen Rock hilltop farm: 'You cannot stay stressed here for long' and Wiki profiles eight with national status bearing Hanover roots and Hames made in Shrewsbury Township's Hametown fueled early American horsepower and Two ornate mansions that Hanover Shoe built.
York County ranks third in the state behind Chester and Lancaster counties for the greatest number of racehorses, a Penn State researcher said a few years back.
"You don't have a racetrack in the county," the researcher said. "It's a bedroom community for those who do."
Bedroom community, yes.
But one of those horses who lived here and left will always have a York County birthplace in its biography.
That's Lil E. Tee, 1992 Kentucky Derby winner, who was put down this week.
These excerpts from a York Daily Record/Sunday News/AP story (3/24/09) tell about this first Pennsylvania-bred horse to win the Derby:
Continue reading Lil E. Tee: 'Famous horse with the York County hometown'.
