The statue was loaned by the city of Newport to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1985 and was eventually installed about 1995 in front of the headquarters building for the Preservation Society of Newport County at the corner of Bellevue and Narragansett avenues in Newport.
In addition to his Kentucky horse farm, in 1908 Belmont established Haras de Villers, a breeding operation near Foucarmont in Upper Normandy, France.
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His son, Raymond, owned Belray Farm near Middleburg, Virginia where the Hall of Fame horse Colin lived out his final years, dying there in 1932 at the age of 27.
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A widower for twelve years, on February 26, 1910 he married actress Eleanor Robson.
--In 1911, she was rumored to be engaged to William Vincent Astor, who would later die on the Titanic.--> In 1915 she married Morgan Belmont (1892–1953), the son of August Belmont, at her parents' home, Rockery Hall.
Interborough Rapid Transit 3344 "Mineola," the personal private car of August Belmont, Jr. (president of the IRT, which operated New York's first subway)
August Strindberg | Belmont Park | August | Belmont | Belmont Stakes | Papal conclave, August 1978 | Stanisław August Poniatowski | August Derleth | Pernilla August | August Macke | Belmont, Massachusetts | Gottfried August Bürger | August Wilson | August von Mackensen | August Sander | August Heckscher | Georg August Schweinfurth | August Spies | August Neidhardt von Gneisenau | August Bournonville | August Belmont | Robert August | Oslo, August 31st | Karl August Varnhagen von Ense | Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | Carl August Tidemann | Bille August | Belmont, North Carolina | August Weismann | August von Kotzebue |
The Metropolitan Museum, New York owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: Abandoned, Arabs on the March and Arabs making a detour; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller family, Vanderbilt family, John Jacob Astor, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., August Belmont, and William Walters collections.
A number of New York businessmen, including Levi P. Morton, Levi Parsons, August Belmont, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Denison and John D. Rockefeller were interested in extending rail line through Indian Territory, and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, familiarly called the Katy Railroad, began its corporate existence in 1865 toward that end.