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3 unusual facts about John Cox Stevens


Australian Sailing Museum

It has maritime artworks, lifelike wax figures of sailing icons (a saluting Dennis Conner, John Cox Stevens, Sir Thomas Lipton & more), while the main exhibition area is circled with pennants from clubs around the world.

Union Course

In the 1823 match set up by John Cox Stevens, American Eclipse (representing the North) raced Henry (representing the South).

In 1820, the "New York Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses" (NYAIBH) was founded by John Cox Stevens and Cornelius W. Van Ranst, among others, and successfully pushed to repeal the ban.



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