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Darby Dan Farm is a produce, livestock, and thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm founded in 1935 near the Darby Creek in Galloway, Ohio by businessman John W. Galbreath. [1] Named for the creek and for Galbreath's son, Daniel M. Galbreath (1928–1995), it was expanded from an original 85-acre (340,000 m 2 ) farm into a 4,000 acre (16 ...
It is home to 9 stallions, 336 yearlings and over 500 broodmares. The yearling farm is located near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and a satellite stallion station is located in Lambertville, New Jersey with two more stallions. Hanover Shoe Farm has produced world champion racehorses and its stallions have sired a multitude of winners. [citation needed]
The author also mentioned a reduced-cost registry for "half-breed" Thoroughbreds. [10] The number of horses involved in the program remained high even into the final years of the Remount Service. As late as 1945, between 450 and 500 stallions owned by the government and over 11,000 civilian-owned mares produced 7,293 foals.
The farm breeds American Saddlebreds and Quarter Horses, [24] which are exhibited in horse shows. [25] The stallion roster includes the Champion Saddlebred, Call Me Ringo, who performed in harness at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington. [26] [27] A former stallion was Sultan's Great Day. [28]
Adena Springs has stood multiple stallions at its various farms since 1996. Their first important stallion was El Prado , who was the leading sire in North America for 2002, and an influential sire of sires, including Medaglia d'Oro and Kitten's Joy , himself the leading sire in 2012.
Indraff (1938–1963) was a gray Arabian stallion, foaled on May 9, 1938 and bred by Roger Selby of Ohio.His sire was Raffles and his dam was Indaia. [1] Both his sire and dam were bred by the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and imported to the United States by Selby.
Starting with 921 acres (3.73 km 2) purchased from his family, Robert Alexander built his Woodburn Stud at Spring Station, Kentucky into the leading horse breeding operation in the United States. He also founded Airdrie, Kentucky in 1855 to mine for iron ore, a project he shortly abandoned and returned to his stud farm.
Woodburn Stud was an American horse breeding farm located in Woodford County, Kentucky about ten miles (16 km) from the city of Lexington. It was established in the 18th century as an original land grant property of General Hugh Mercer to whom it had been granted for his military services during the American Revolutionary War .