Brookmeade Stable was a successful

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stable owned by Dodge automobile heiress and socialite

Isabel Dodge Sloane Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane (February 1896 – March 16, 1962) was an American heiress and socialite who owned a major Thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm. Isabel Dodge was the second of three children of Canadian-born Ivy Hawki ...

. Sloane first won using the name Brookmeade Stable at the Manly Memorial Steeplechase at Pimlico in 1924. In 1929, Sloane divorced and expanded her interest in horse racing. She purchased in

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, again using the name Brookmeade Stable. Sloane later developed the estate into a breeding farm, Brookmeade Stud, producing several successful race horses, including Sword Dancer.

U.S. Triple Crown successes

Brookmeade Stable won each of the three races constituting the

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series. The first win came in the 1934 Kentucky Derby with

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then his stablemate

High Quest High Quest (1931–1948) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1934 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series of races. Background Sir Gallahad III, the sire of High Quest, had been purchas ...

won that year's

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. Bold gave Brookmeade Stable its second Preakness win in the 1951 event. In 1959, Sword Dancer completed the triple with a victory in the final leg of the series, the Belmont Stakes. Brookmeade Stable also won the most prestigious steeplechase event in the United States, the

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. High Boots won the race in 1949 and again in 1953. Brookmeade's success allowed Sloane to become the first woman to lead the United States in race earning in 1934, with $251,138. The stables of Brookmeade in Upperville, Virginia now constitute Lazy Lane Farms.

References

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