thoroughbred horse racing
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stud
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farm and racing stable located on Monmouth Road ( County Road 537) in the
Jobstown
Jobstown (; ) is a suburb of Tallaght, and so an outer suburb of Dublin, in the administrative county of South Dublin, Ireland.
History
Jobstown takes its name from Henry Jope, who held land here in the 1250s.
Jobstown was historically a small ...
New Jersey
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Pierre Lorillard IV
The farm was founded in the 1870s by the wealthy
tobacco
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manufacturer
Pierre Lorillard IV
Pierre J. Lorillard IV (October 13, 1833 – July 7, 1901) was an American tobacco manufacturer and Thoroughbred race horse owner.
Early life
Born in Westchester, New York, he was the son of Pierre Lorillard III (1796–1867) and Catherine Gri ...
(1833-1901) who had a home in the town of Rancocas, now a part of Westampton Township, New Jersey. Lorillard built his stable into one of the premier
thoroughbred
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breeding and training operations in the United States. Lorillard bred
Parole
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, one of the three greatest runners of the 1870s. In 1881, Lorillard's horse
Iroquois
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became the first American-owned and -bred horse to win a
Europe
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an classic race. Ridden by the champion English jockey,
Fred Archer Fred or Frederick Archer may refer to:
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, Iroquois won The Derby then went on to also capture the
St. Leger Stakes
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Kansas
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oil
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industrialist Harry F. Sinclair and moved to Canada where she set up her own breeding and racing operation that would see her inducted into the
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1976 to honour those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and Thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. It is located at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.
The ...
in 2011.
Harry Ford Sinclair
Harry Sinclair would invest considerable funds to continue the Rancocas breeding and racing success, making it one of the dominant racing stables in the United States during the 1920s. For Sinclair, trainer
Sam Hildreth
Samuel Clay Hildreth (May 16, 1866 – September 24, 1929) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer and owner.Kentucky Derby and in three Belmont Stakes. Between 1923 and 1929 the stable had six horses compete in the
Preakness Stakes
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Purchase
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and Lucullite stood there. Such was the fame of Rancocas Stable that the Pennsylvania Railroad named baggage car #5858 in its honor.
Among the jockeys who rode for Rancocas Stable were Hall of Famers
Earl Sande
Earl Harold Sande (November 13, 1898 – August 19, 1968) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.
Early life in South Dakota
Born in Groton, South Dakota, Earl Sande started out as a bronco buster in the early 1900s b ...
and
Laverne Fator
Laverne Andrew Fator (October 21, 1899 – May 16, 1936) was an American Hall of Fame jockey.
Born in Hailey, Idaho, Laverne Fator and his brothers Mark and Elmer all became jockeys. The most successful of the three, Laverne Fator's riding ...
. Sinclair's Rancocas Stable set the record as top money winner in a single season in 1923 that stood until 1941 when it was broken by Calumet Farm.
Personal problems culminating in a prison term for his part in what became known in American history as the
Teapot Dome scandal
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(Sinclair sold US oil reserves to private interests for his own aggrandizement), forced Harry Sinclair to sell his horses and the farm.
William Helis
In 1943, William Helis purchased the farm and in 1946 acquired adjoining acreage to bring it up to . On his death in 1950, management of the property was taken over by his son, William Jr. who was also involved in racing.
The site continues to operate as the Helis Stock Farm, and is run by Linda and Ed Lovenduski. The more than farm includes a number of original Rancocas Stable-era buildings that can be seen from the roadside; including a training barn with 1,100 windows enclosing a half-mile oblong indoor track.New Jersey Round Barns List /ref>