Major races: Wood Memorial Stakes (2001), Metropolitan Handicap (2002), Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap (2002), Cigar Mile Handicap (2002 & 2003)

Awards: Champion Sprinter (2001)

Post Career: entered stud in 2005 at Adena Springs, KY in 2010 at Highcliff Farm, NY in 2013 at Mill Creek, NY in 2016 at Lane's End, TX in 2017 at Valor Farm, TX - pensioned 2020 Euthanized on November 22, 2020 at Valor Farm.

Congaree met with success as a stallion, siring eight stakes winners from his first two crops to race, including multiple Gr.1 winner Jeranimo and multiple Gr. III winner Mythical Power. Other progeny include Don't Tell Sophia, Killer Graces, Shrinking Violet, Maoineach, Rockin' Rockstar, and Conchacer

April 20 - Congaree

This is maybe Bob McNair's favorite horse and possibly his best horse. Bob McNair got into horse racing with a couple of horses and that was as big as he intended it to get. However, Bob was a success magnet, and the racing operation grew into a breeding farm in Kentucky and a training operation in Aiken (or Camden) South Carolina, and then another farm in Saratoga, NY that butted upon against the race course.

Bob is the man who brought pro football back to Houston, TX when he was granted a new franchise, the Houston Texans. Bob McNair decided that he wanted to give full-time attention to his football organization, in one of the more amazing deals of all time. Bob's equine advisor, John Adger, put a deal together selling all three farms and all their horses totaling several hundred to Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai. Part of that package included a colt named Midshipman who would go on to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile the following year.

And for good measure - McNair’s Stonerside Farm had one of its last stakes winners named Bob and John, named after Bob McNair and John Adger. It's fun to walk the streets of Paris, Kentucky and see the horse’s shoes in the concrete sidewalks. It's nice to see Congaree and Bob and John.

I was told that the painting was at the Saratoga farm's main house. I was also told that there was a discussion as to whether the Congaree painting was part of the transaction when the farm sold.