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A quarter horse meet is held from January through March. The track’s most notable race is the Super Derby, a race first ran in September 1980 now at the curren distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles (1,700 m). It was once a top race for 3 yo’s and horses such as Tiznow won the race. The race, along with the track suffered a precipitous decline and ...
The Fasig-Tipton Company, Inc. is an American auction house for Thoroughbred horses. Founded in 1898, it is the oldest auction company of its kind in North America. [1] The company has offices in Lexington, Kentucky, Elkton, Maryland, and Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2008, Fasig-Tipton Co. was purchased by Synergy Investments Ltd., a Dubai ...
On April 10 Bernard de Marigny, Julius C Branch and Henry Augustine Tayloe organized the Spring Meeting of The Louisiana Jockey Club at the Louisiana Race Course. [3] Tayloe was a member of the founding dynasty of American horseracing: the son of John Tayloe III, founder of the Washington Jockey Club, imported the first Epsom Derby winner Diomed, bred the foundational American thoroughbred Sir ...
Lightning Bar (1951–1960) was an American Quarter Horse who raced and subsequently became a breeding stallion. He was bred by his lifelong owner Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring of Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, and Della P, a Quarter Horse mare from Louisiana, then noted for the breeding of sprint horses.
The Louisiana Derby (6:42 p.m. EDT post time) will offer 200 qualifying points toward the May 4 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, including 100 to the winner and 50 to the runner-up.
"Forever Famous" Quarter Horse Journal March 2001 p. 40-49 "Hall of Fame Horses" Quarter Horse Journal May 1990 p. 48-49 "Hall of Fame" Quarter Horse Journal March 2004 p. 42-53 "Hall of Fame" Quarter Horse Journal March 2007 p. 42-55 "Hall of Fame" Quarter Horse Journal March 2008 p. 43-55 "MMIII" Quarter Horse Journal March 2003 p. 41-51
Mr San Peppy (1968–1998) was an American Quarter Horse stallion and a famous cutting horse. He was the National Cutting Horse Association , or NCHA, World Champion in 1973 and 1976. He was also the American Quarter Horse Association , or AQHA, World Champion in Senior Cutting in 1976, as well as being named the High Point Cutting Horse by the ...
Cutter Bill (1955–1982) was a Quarter Horse stallion and the 1962 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Open World Champion cutting horse with record earnings for the year. He also won the 1962 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Honor Roll cutting horse award which made him the first horse to have won both the NCHA and AQHA awards ...