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In one state, North Dakota, the state horse is officially designated the "honorary state equine". [2] Two additional states have not designated a specific state horse, but have designed a horse or horse breed as its official state animals : the horse in New Jersey and the Morgan horse breed in Vermont .
In the 1980s, Northern Dancer's stud fee reached $1 million, an amount four to five times other stallions and a record that still stands in 2009. [13] The highest price paid at auction for a Thoroughbred was set in 2006 at $16,000,000 for a two-year-old colt named The Green Monkey, [14] who was a descendant of Northern Dancer. Record prices at ...
They were chosen to produce a breed that combined athletic ability with a good temperament and certain physical characteristics. Azteca stallions and geldings measure between 15 and 16.1 hands (60 and 65 inches, 152 and 165 cm) at the withers, while mares stand between 14.3 and 16 hands (59 and 64 inches, 150 and 163 cm). [2]
Mage's full brother Dornoch is also a grade-I stakes winner, having won the 2024 Belmont Stakes. The dam, a stakes-winning half sister to Grade I winner Finnegans Wake, also has a yearling colt by McKinzie. [4] Mage is a descendent of Darley Arabian. [5] He is trained by Gustavo Delgado, a four-time Venezuelan Triple Crown-winning trainer. [4]
In 2006, Medaglia d'Oro was moved to Audrey Haisfield's newly completed Stonewall Stallions, where he stood through 2009. His fee increased to $40,000 in 2007, then $60,000 in 2009. [ 6 ] From his first crop born in 2006, he produced several stakes winners, the most notable of which was Rachel Alexandra , who was the 2009 Horse of the Year.
In 1997, he also won the World Cup European League. Donnerhall earned his third team gold while finishing 4th individually at the 1998 Dressage World Championship. He was also named Oldenburg Stallion of the Year in 1998. The stallion then went on a "farewell tour" that same year, retiring from competitive sport at the age of 17.
City of Light (foaled May 7, 2014) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2018 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and 2019 Pegasus World Cup in his final two starts. He also won the 2017 Malibu Stakes and 2018 Triple Bend Stakes and Oaklawn Handicap.
On June 8, 2008, War Emblem was evaluated by a stallion behavior team from the University of Pennsylvania. They suggested that he should be separated from other stallions to help improve his breeding behavior. The measures seemed to help War Emblem in the 2009 breeding season, with a career record of 43 foals born in 2010. [21]