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  2. Belair Stud - Wikipedia

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    Queen Mab and Spark were the first pair of English-bred Thoroughbred horses imported to the Province of Maryland. Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, gave Spark to Ogle during Ogle's trip to England in 1740. The Prince of Wales presented the gift to Ogle. [2] Later, Benjamin Tasker, Jr. brought Selima to Belair, where she became a prominent ...

  3. Thoroughbred - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] While the term probably came into general use because the English Thoroughbred's General Stud Book was one of the first breed registries created, in modern usage horse breeders consider it incorrect to refer to any animal as a thoroughbred except for horses belonging to the Thoroughbred breed. [10]

  4. List of U.S. state horses - Wikipedia

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    The Thoroughbred is the center of a multi-billion dollar breeding and racing industry in Kentucky. 1996 [8] [9] Maryland: Thoroughbred: Maryland has a long history of breeding and racing Thoroughbreds, and today maintains an extensive network of breeding farms, training centers and racecourses. 2003 [10] [11] Massachusetts: Morgan

  5. Spark (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Spark was a Thoroughbred stallion who was among the early imports of Thoroughbred horses to America. The Belair Stud stables were associated with him and a mare, Queen Mab, also imported in this period. Frederick, Prince of Wales gave the stallion to Samuel Ogle, the governor of Maryland, as a gift.

  6. Queen Mab (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Queen Mab was one of the first pair of English-bred Thoroughbred horses imported to the Province of Maryland in 1747 by Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle. [2] [3] Queen Mab was given to Ogle by Lord Baltimore during Ogle's trip to England in 1740. [1] The importation of Queen Mab and Spark established the Belair Stud legacy. [4]

  7. Windfields Farm (Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won eleven Queen's Plate races, as well as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Their horses have won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing twice, in 1959 and 1963. Windfields Farm and/or E. P. Taylor bred a world-record 48 champions and 360 stakes winners. [10]

  8. Sagamore Farm - Wikipedia

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    On November 5, 2020, Sagamore Farm announced that they were shifting from breeding and training champion Thoroughbred race horses to growing grains for the Sagamore Spirit brand, which already uses limestone-filtered spring water from Sagamore Farm to distill its line of signature award-winning Maryland rye whiskey.

  9. Thoroughbred breeding theories - Wikipedia

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    Many horses were inbred in the early years of Thoroughbred development, which increased the chances of early horses appearing in many pedigrees today. [10] [11] One example was Old Bald Peg placed in family 6, one of the earliest tap-root dams, having been foaled around 1635. Most, if not all modern Thoroughbreds trace their ancestry to her ...

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