{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Set Them Free , image = , caption = , sire = Stop The Music , grandsire = Hail To Reason , dam = Valseuse , damsire = Tyrant , sex = Mare , foaled = {{birth date, 1990, 02, 11 , death_date = {{death date and age, 2018, 10, 30, 1990, 02, 11 , country = United States , colour =

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, breeder = Raceland , owner = Ann & Jerome Moss , trainer = Brian A. Mayberry , record = 12: 5-1-2 , earnings = $173,275 , race =

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(1992)
Debutante Breeders' Cup Stakes (1992)
Very Subtle Handicap (1994)
Eloquent Handicap (1994) , awards= , honours = , updated= Set Them Free (foaled February 11, 1990, in Kentucky, died October 30, 2018) was an American thoroughbred mare

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. She is sired by stakes winner Stop The Music, who in turn was sired by the 1960 U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt, Hail To Reason, out of the Tyrant mare Valseuse. She was purchased as a two-year-old by Ann and Jerome Moss at the 1992

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Calder sale for $45,000 through the late trainer

Brian Mayberry Brian A. Mayberry (March 8, 1938 - July 20, 1998) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer noted as a top race conditioner of two-year-olds. Mayberry was the son of a trainer and the grandson of John P. Mayberry who saddled Judge Himes t ...

and was named for a song by the recording artist

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. Known as a sprint specialist, at age two Set Them Free won the

at Santa Anita Park and the Debutante Breeders' Cup Stakes at Bay Meadows Racetrack. She placed 11th in the

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. Set Them Free was best known for her success as a broodmare. She was the dam of two

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entrants: 2005 winner Giacomo, by Holy Bull, and Tiago, by Pleasant Tap.

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