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Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
Prior to 2015, the Leading Sire Lists published by The Blood-Horse excluded earnings from Hong Kong and Japan due to the disparity in purses. Starting in 2015, earnings from Hong Kong and Japan are included on an adjusted basis.
By Lexington, Brooks does not mean our fair city, but the horse named for it, Lexington, one of the most famous race horses and sires of all time. She was at a lunch near her home in Massachusetts ...
Asteroid was foaled in 1861 and was sired by the great racehorse and sire Lexington. His dam Nebula was by the imported Glencoe. This Lexington/Glencoe cross made him a three-quarters-brother-in-blood to Kentucky and the undefeated Norfolk. [1] All of these colts were foaled in 1861.
Robert A. Alexander was the first to establish a systematic design method for horse breeding. Woodburn Stud was home to the stallion Lexington (1850–1875), America's leading sire for sixteen years. Lexington sired numerous champions and winners of major races including Duke of Magenta, Kentucky and Preakness, for whom the Preakness Stakes is
Gainesway Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding business in Lexington, Kentucky.It was originally called Greentree Farms.. The 1,500-acre (6 km 2) property has been home to stallions such as Youth and Exceller and numerous others who are buried on the property.
John Benjamin Pryor (1812 – December 26, 1890), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.He trained Lexington, a top racehorse of the 1850s whose excellence in competition and reputation as a sire stud continued well into the 20th century, earning the horse induction into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.
A man who lied about being a Navy SEAL and put other false information on loan documents in an attempt to start a horse business in Lexington has been sentenced to prison time for fraud ...