Cloverbrook was an American

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that won the 1877

Preakness Stakes The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs () on ...

and

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, races that would become the second and third legs of the U.S. Triple Crown series. Cloverbrook was the first horse to win the Preakness Stakes that had been bred and trained in Maryland. He was bred and raced by Edwin Augustus Clabaugh of

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and trained by Jeter Walden, a brother to

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trainer

R. Wyndham Walden Robert Wyndham Walden (August 2, 1844 – April 28, 1905) was one of the most successful American trainers in thoroughbred horse racing during the last quarter of the 19th century. He was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame ...

Pedigree

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