 Grandsire Voltigeur won England's Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes in 1850.Raceland was purchased and raced by Joseph F. Ullman, a native of St. Louis, Missouri who held a controlling interest in the East St. Louis Jockey Club and who was the preeminent bookmaker of the day.Raceland became the dominant two-year-old competing in the United States in 1887.