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    The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is run over the worldwide...
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    Preakness Stakes winner Damascus. the Byerley Turk (1680c) sire line produced 13 winners (10 colts, 3 geldings). The main branches of this sire (all branched...
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    Man o' War (category Godolphin Arabian sire line)
    opened in 1905. Man o' War was sired by Fair Play, a multiple stakes winner who finished second in the 1908 Belmont Stakes to the undefeated Colin. Man...
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  • The Travers Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is nicknamed the "Midsummer...
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    Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund is the public-benefit corporation responsible for administering the New York Sire Stakes. The Agriculture...
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  • Messenger Stakes is an American harness racing event for 3-year-old pacing horses. It was organized in 1956 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York (on suburban...
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  • Hambletonian Stakes is a major American harness race for three-year-old trotting horses, named in honor of Hambletonian 10, a foundation sire of the Standardbred...
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  • Secretariat (horse) (category American Grade 1 Stakes winners)
    A.P. Indy. Terlingua, a stakes winner and dam of leading sire Storm Cat. Secrettame, a stakes winner and dam of important sire Gone West, whose descendants...
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    Mr. Prospector (category United States Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    became an outstanding sire, leading the North American general sire list in 1978 and 1979. From 1,195 named foals, he sired 182 stakes winners (15.1%). Although...
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  • Bold Ruler (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    Kentucky. His sire was Nasrullah, who has the distinction of being a champion sire in both Europe and North America. Bold Ruler's dam was the stakes-winning...
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  • Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Bold Ruler: leading sire of stakeswinners; born in the same barn the same night as Round Table; sired the outstanding Secretariat...
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  • produced graded stakes winner and important sire Icecapade, the talented filly Laughter, who went on to become a producer of several stakes winners, and...
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    Northern Dancer (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    Two-Year-Old Colt after winning both the Summer Stakes and Coronation Futurity in Canada, plus the Remsen Stakes in New York. At three, he became a leading contender...
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  • 1975. On June 13, 1992, at Buffalo Raceway, Hennessey won seven New York Sire Stakes events, including a track-record six in a row. He won his 8,000th...
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    Sunday Silence (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    sire. In 1989, he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes but failed to complete the Triple Crown when he was defeated in the Belmont Stakes....
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    Frankel (horse) (category British Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    February 2008) is a retired champion British Thoroughbred racehorse and current sire. He was unbeaten in his fourteen-race career and was the highest-rated racehorse...
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  • The Spinaway Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to two-year-old fillies...
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    Count Fleet (category Belmont Stakes winners)
    sire and broodmare sire, leading the North American lists in 1951 and 1963 respectively. He sired Kentucky Derby winner Count Turf and Belmont Stakes...
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  • Sadler's Wells (horse) (category British Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    outstanding sire. He was the 1984 European Champion miler after winning the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Phoenix Champion Stakes in that year...
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  • Giant's Causeway (horse) (category United States Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    sire Storm Cat was the 1999 and 2000 leading sire in North America, and his dam Mariah's Storm also produced Freud, the 2008 leading sire in New York...
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    and sire of Rhoda (winner of the 1000 Guineas in 1816) Waxy (1790), who won the Derby Stakes in 1793 and ten other races. Waxy was the leading sire in...
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    Seattle Slew (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    outstanding sire and broodmare sire, leading the North American sire list in 1984 when his son Swale won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Another son...
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    Danehill (horse) (category British Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    successful sire of all time with 349 stakes winners and 89 Grade 1 winners. He was the leading sire in Australia nine times, the leading sire in Great Britain...
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    War Admiral (category Godolphin Arabian sire line)
    American sire in 1945 and the leading juvenile sire in 1948. Before his 1959 death, War Admiral sired 40 stakes winners. Major winners sired by War Admiral...
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  • Storm Cat (category United States Champion Thoroughbred Sires)
    leading sire in North America in 1999 and 2000, and the leading juvenile (two-year-old) sire a record seven times. He sired 108 graded stakes winners...
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    A.P. Indy (category Belmont Stakes winners)
    Summer Squall, won the 1990 Preakness Stakes. Weekend Surprise was from a distinguished female family and her sire was Triple Crown winner Secretariat....
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    Lexington (horse) (category Byerley Turk sire line)
    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...
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  • Spearmint's sire Carbine was a New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame and Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Chicle won the 1915 Champagne Stakes in fast time...
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  • Charm, as well as the useful sire, Lomond (himself a champion sire in Italy). The inaugural running of the Poker Stakes was on 25 September 1983 and was...
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  • Saratoga Casino Hotel (category Horse racing venues in New York (state))
    racino measure also allowed Saratoga Casino and Raceway to offer the New York Sire Stakes Night of Champions in 2005 and 2006 while Yonkers Raceway was being...
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