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unusual facts about thoroughbred horse



Gerry Cheevers

Cheevers has also devoted his time to his interests in thoroughbred horse racing.

Sunny Hill Plantation

Lewis' wife, Geraldine Livingston Thompson co-owned Brookdale Farm, a thoroughbred horse training facility in Lincroft, New Jersey.


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Alan Goldberg

Alan E. Goldberg (born 1949), American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer

Baron Sherborne

Sherborne's contribution to the world of thoroughbred horse racing was also important due to the close horse-breeding ties between Sir John Dutton and the Earl of Godolphin who owned Godolphin Arabian.

Breeders' Cup Classic

The Classic is considered by many to be the premier thoroughbred horse race of the year in the U.S., and for 2008 only the Dubai World Cup, Japan Cup, Melbourne Cup and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe surpassed its $5 million purse.

California oaks

California Oaks — an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in February at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, California.

Calumet

Calumet Farm, a well-known Thoroughbred horse breeding farm, owned by the founder of the Calumet Baking Powder Company

Charles Burr

Charles E. Burr (1934–2008), American Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey

Darby Dan Farm

Darby Dan Farm is a produce, livestock, and thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm founded in 1935 near the Darby Creek in Galloway, Ohio by businessman John W. Galbreath.

Deccan Derby

Deccan Derby is an Indian Thoroughbred horse race held every year at the Hyderabad Race Club, Hyderabad, India.

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Evening attire

Evening Attire Stakes, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York

Frank Alexander

Frank A. Alexander (born 1937), American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer

George DeBenedicty

He started getting further involved in the thoroughbred horse industry in 1985 when he first started breeding horses.

Group 1

Group One Thoroughbred horse races, the leading events in the sport

Group 2

Group 2, the second level of worldwide Thoroughbred horse races

Group 3

Group 3, the third tier of races in worldwide Thoroughbred horse racing

Jacqueline Auriol

She once explained her passion for flying by saying: "I feel so happy when I'm flying. Perhaps it is the feeling of power, the pleasure of dominating a machine as beautiful as a Thoroughbred horse. Mingled with these basic joys is another less primitive feeling, that of a mission accomplished. Each time I set foot on an airfield, I sense with fresh excitement that this is where I belong."

James Woodward

James T. Woodward (1837 – 1910), American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty

Maryland State Fair

The majority stockholder of the Corporation for the M.S.F. & A.S. of B.C., which was now the Maryland Jockey Club (which also owned and operated the famous Pimlico Race Course in northwest Baltimore, and home to the Preakness Stakes - one of thoroughbred horse racing's "Triple Crown"), had agreed to sell.

Minatare, Nebraska

John A. Nerud - Thoroughbred horse trainer and owner inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1972.

Newstead Farm

Newstead Farm is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm near Upperville, Virginia founded in 1936 by Taylor Hardin.

Norman Robinson

Norman Robinson Stakes, an Australian thoroughbred horse race since 1978

Preakness

Preakness Stakes, an American flat thoroughbred horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland, named for the above horse

Preakness Stables, a former thoroughbred horse racing stable located in the above section

Queen of the Turf

The Queen of the Turf Stakes, a Group 1 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards

Rebecca Sharp

Rebecca Sharp (horse), thoroughbred horse trained by Geoff Wragg, won 1997 Coronation Stakes

Riccarton Park Racecourse

Riccarton Park Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch city area in New Zealand.

Robert Gerry

Robert Livingston Gerry, Sr. (1877–1957), American thoroughbred horse owner & breeder

Roma Cup

The Roma Cup is a Perth Racing Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race held under Weight for Age conditions, for horses aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres at Belmont Park Racecourse, Perth in May.

Thorndon Mile

The Thorndon Mile is a Group One (G1) Thoroughbred horse race contested over 1,600 metres (one mile) and is held at Trentham Racecourse, Wellington, New Zealand.

William P. Sanders

He was a cousin of Jefferson Davis, and his sister Elizabeth Jane married attorney, mining magnet and thoroughbred horse breeder James Ben Ali Haggin (December 9, 1822 – September 13, 1914), a business partner of George Hearst and the owner of Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.

Willie Sims

Willie Simms (1870–1927 ), American thoroughbred horse racing jockey