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Cox's Ridge
Cox's Ridge (1974–1998) was an American Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse. He bypassed the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, U.S. Triple Crown series and had considerable success in 1977 and 1978 with his most important win coming in the Metropolitan Handicap. In 1979, the five-year-old Cox's Ridge won the Tom Fool Handicap, ran second in the Whitney Handicap, and finished first in the Philip H. Iselin Stakes but was disqualified for interference and placed second. Retired to stud (animal), stud, Cox's Ridge was a very successful sire whose offspring includes millionaires: * Life's Magic (b. 1981) - 1984 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, 1985 American Champion Older Female Horse, career earnings of $2,255,218 * Little Missouri (horse), Little Missouri (b. 1982) - won Brooklyn Handicap, sired 1993 Preakness Stakes winner, Prairie Bayou * Vanlandingham (b. 1981) - 1985 American Champion Older Male Horse, won G1s Jockey Club Gold Cup, Washington, D.C. Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Turn
Best Turn (May 7, 1966–February 10, 1984) was an American-bred thoroughbred racehorse and Classic Chef-de-race sire. Background Best Turn was a dark bay or brown stallion bred and owned by the famous Calumet Farm. Best Turn's sire, Turn-to, was a high-class racehorse, despite an abbreviated career on the track in which he won the Garden State Stakes, Saratoga Special, and Flamingo Stakes. He became a noted sire. Best Turn was the first of his dam Sweet Clementine's four foals, and the most successful on the racetrack. Sweet Clementine had won one of her six starts for Calumet. Her dam and Best Turn's second dam was Miz Clementine, who won multiple stakes races and was a full sister to champion racer Two Lea. Best Turn was very large (up to 17.3 hands). He was sickle-hocked behind and pigeon-toed in front. Due to his large size, he had difficulty in close quarters and ran best when able to get an open track on the outside. Racing career Best Turn was a decent raceho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic premise – to identify which of two or more horses is the fastest over a set course or distance – has been mostly unchanged since at least classical antiquity. Horse races vary widely in format, and many countries have developed their own particular traditions around the sport. Variations include restricting races to particular breeds, running over obstacles, running over different distances, running on different track surfaces, and running in different gaits. In some races, horses are assigned different weights to carry to reflect differences in ability, a process known as handicapping. While horses are sometimes raced purely for sport, a major part of horse racing's interest and economic importance is in the gambling associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Champion Older Male Horse
The title of American Champion Older Dirt Male Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a stallion or gelding, four years old and up, for performances on dirt and main track racing surfaces. In 1971, it became part of the Eclipse Awards program as the award for Champion Older Male Horse. The award originated in 1936 when the ''Daily Racing Form'' (DRF) began naming an annual champion. In the same year, the Baltimore-based ''Turf and Sports Digest'' magazine instituted a similar award. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by these organizations. Whenever there were different champions named, the horses are listed side-by-side with the one chosen as champion by the ''Daily Racing Form'' noted with the letters (DRF), the one chosen by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations by the letters (TRA) and the one chosen by ''Turf and Sports Digest'' by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanlandingham
Vanlandingham (foaled April 28, 1981, in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Background Owned by Arkansas businessman John Ed Anthony, Vanlandingham was bred and raced by the Loblolly Stable. He was conditioned for racing by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, who told ''Sports Illustrated'' in an October 14, 1985, article that the colt suffered from tender feet that stung him. Racing career 1984: three-year-old season Racing at age three, Vanlandingham broke the Oaklawn Park track record in winning the March 1984 Rebel Handicap. Sent to the Kentucky Derby, the colt fractured a pastern in his right foreleg during the race and finished sixteenth. The injury kept him out of racing for the next thirteen months. 1985: Championship year In 1985, Vanlandingham won Grade I races on both dirt and turf. After he won the Suburban Handicap and the Jockey Club Gold Cup, his owner supplemented him for a fee of $360,000 to the November 2 Breede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairie Bayou
Prairie Bayou (March 4, 1990 – June 5, 1993) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse owned and bred by Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas. Named for a bayou between Little Rock and Hot Springs in Arkansas, he was sired by Little Missouri and out of the mare Whiffling. Owned by Loblolly Stable, after Prairie Bayou's success on the racetrack, including the 1993 Preakness Stakes, Calumet Farm purchased Whiffling in foal to Danzig for $1,050,000 at the 1994 Keeneland November Sale. Early racing career At age two Prairie Bayou won a maiden race and an allowance race. He went on to place second in his next two starts in stakes races. He finished as the runner-up in both the Inner Harbor Stakes and the Pappa Riccio Stakes. As a three-year-old he really began to show promise. He won the Count Fleet Stakes and the Whirlaway Stakes at Aqueduct in the first quarter of 1993. In March Prairie Bayou won the Spriral Stakes at Turfway Park. In April he won the grade one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland (except in 2026 when it will move to Laurel Park (race track), Laurel Park during reconstruction of Pimlico). The Preakness Stakes is a Graded stakes race, Grade I race run over a distance of on dirt. Colt (horseracing), Colts and geldings carry ; filly (horseracing), fillies . It is the second jewel (or leg) of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes. First run in 1873, the Preakness Stakes was named by a former Maryland governor after the colt who won the first Dinner Party Stakes at Pimlico. Annual "Preakness Weekend" races include both the Saturday Preakness Stakes and a Graded stakes race, Grade II race on Friday for fillies only named the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. Attendance at the Preakness Stakes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Handicap
The Brooklyn Stakes (formerly known as the Brooklyn Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, on Long Island. It currently is a Grade II event open to four-year-olds and up willing to race one and one-half miles on dirt. It was a Grade 1 race prior to 1993. Historical notes First run on May 14, 1887, at Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York, it was won by Emery & Cotton's Dry Monopole in track record time for the mile and one-quarter distance. A versatile horse, a year earlier on June 15, 1886, Dry Monopole had won America's first ever Thoroughbred flat race on turf. The Brooklyn Handicap quickly became one of the top attractions on the New York racing circuit, drawing some of the best Thoroughbreds. The race was once the second leg of what is sometimes referred to as the New York Handicap Triple series of races. It was preceded by the Metropolitan Handicap and followed by the Suburban Handicap. Four horses won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Missouri (horse)
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Little Missouri , image = , caption = , sire = Cox's Ridge , grandsire = Best Turn , dam = Win Nona , damsire = Jacinto , sex = Stallion , foaled = 1982 , country = United States , colour = Chestnut , breeder = Mrs. Maxwell Wood , owner = Loblolly Stable , trainer = Rusty Arnold , record = 25: 8-6-3 , earnings = $553,025 , race = Brooklyn Handicap (1986) Stuyvesant Handicap (1986) , awards= , honours = , updated= August 25, 2007 Little Missouri (April 23, 1982 – September 8, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Kentucky by Mrs. Maxwell Wood, Little Missouri was owned and raced by John Ed Anthony's Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas. Under trainer Rusty Arnold, he had his best season as a four-year-old in 1986 when he won the Grade I Brooklyn Handicap and the then GII Stuyvesant Handicap, the latter a race his sire Cox's Ridge had won in 1977. As a Sire Retired from racing, Little Missou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Champion Older Female Horse
The Eclipse Award for Champion Older Dirt Female Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a filly or mare, four years old and up, for performances on dirt and main track racing surfaces. In 1971, it became part of the Eclipse Awards program as the award for Champion Older Female Horse. In 1936 both the ''Turf & Sports Digest'' magazine and ''Daily Racing Form'' (DRF) began naming an annual champion. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by both of these organizations. Whenever there were different champions named, the horses are listed side-by-side with the one chosen as champion by the ''Daily Racing Form'' noted with the letters (DRF), the one chosen by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations by the letters (TRA) and the one chosen by ''Turf and Sports Digest'' by the letters (TSD). Prior to 1971 this award was referred to as "Champion Female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
The American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when both the ''Daily Racing Form'' (DRF) and Turf and Sports Digest (TSD) magazine began naming an annual champion. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by these organizations. There were several disagreements, with more than one champion being recognized on five occasions. In 1949, two Calumet Farm fillies, Wistful and Two Lea, shared the Champion's title after finishing equal top of the Daily Racing Form poll. The ''Daily Racing Form'', the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and the National Turf Writers Association all joined forces in 1971 to create the Eclipse Award. In 1978, the voting resulted in a tie between two fillies. Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life's Magic
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Life's Magic , image = , caption = , sire = Cox's Ridge , grandsire = Best Turn , dam = Fire Water , damsire = Tom Rolfe , sex = Filly , foaled = 1981 , country = United States , colour = Bay , breeder = M/M Douglas Parrish & David Parrish III , owner = Mel Hatley & Eugene V. Klein , trainer = D. Wayne Lukas , record = 32: 8-11-6 , earnings = US$2,255,218 , race = Oak Leaf Stakes (1983)Beldame Stakes (1984)Mother Goose Stakes (1984)Alabama Stakes (1984) Monmouth Oaks (1984) Shuvee Handicap (1985) Breeders' Cup wins:Breeders' Cup Distaff (1985) , awards = American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (1984)American Champion Older Female Horse (1985) , honours = , updated= Life's Magic (1981–2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career that lasted from 1983 to 1985 she won eight races and was a two-time Eclipse Award winner. Background Bred in Kentucky, Life's Magic was sired by Cox's Ridge, a Grade I winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stud (animal)
A stud animal is a registered animal retained for breeding. The terms for the male of a given animal species (stallion (horse), stallion, bull, rooster, etc.) usually imply that the animal is intact—that is, not Castration, castrated—and therefore capable of siring offspring. A specialized vocabulary exists for de-sexed animals (gelding, Cattle#Terminology, steer, etc.) and those animals used in grading up to a purebred status. Stud females are generally used to breed further stud animals, but stud males may be used in crossbreeding programs. Both sexes of stud animals are regularly used in artificial breeding programs. A stud farm, in animal husbandry, is an establishment for selective breeding using stud animals.Taylor, Peter, Pastoral Properties of Australia, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, London, Boston,1984 This results in artificial selection. Stud fees A stud fee is a price paid by the owner of a female animal, such as a horse or a dog, to the owner of a male animal f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
