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Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Paris, Kentucky. It was established in 1910 by Arthur B. Hancock , owner of Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County , Virginia , and has been operated by members of his family ever since.
Arthur Boyd Hancock III (born February 22, 1943, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre (8 km 2) horse breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, and a composer of Bluegrass music. Hancock is a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.
One of the horses Seth has owned since was Swale, who won the 1984 Kentucky Derby. This was the first time a horse bred and owned by the Claiborne Farm became a Derby winner, as all previous winners bred at the farm were foaled by broodmares from other farms.
The year before, Copelan had examined another one of Penny Chenery’s horses, 1972 Kentucky Derby winner Riva Ridge, in the days leading up to the race. He'd built a relationship with one of the ...
Retired at the end of the 1959 racing season to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm, Round Table was the leading sire in North America in 1972. [7] He sired 83 stakes winners including He's A Smoothie , Baldric , Apalachee , Artaius , Cellini , Advocator, Flirting Around , King's Bishop , and Poker, [ 8 ] who was the damsire of two Hall of Fame ...
Paris’ Caliborne Farm served as Secretariat’s post-racing home for 16 years, so now the town is planning a park to honor the Triple Crown champion’s legacy — and draw tourists.
In May, 1972 Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby and in June Belmont Stakes, thus fulfilling Mr. Chenery's lifelong dream of producing a great horse. That same year, another Meadow colt, the two-year-old Secretariat had such a dominant fall season that he became American Horse of the Year which was a rare honor for a two-year-old.
Best remembered for shaking up MLB with a $126-million deal, Jayson Werth invested in race horses two years ago and improbably has Dornoch in the Kentucky Derby.