Preakness Stud was the Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation established by Medway, Massachusetts businessman Milton H. Sanford in the Preakness section of Wayne, New Jersey at what today is the corner of Valley Road and Preakness Avenue.
6-778: Milton Sanford named one of his horses Preakness who won the first running of the Dinner Party Stakes and for whom the Preakness Stakes is named. Milton Sanford expanded his breeding operation to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky with the acquisition of the 544-acre (2.20 km) North Elkborn Stock Farm in Lexington which he renamed the Preakness Stud. One of his stallions at stud in Kentucky
12-588: A member of the Board of Stewards of The Jockey Club , he raced under the nom de course Preakness Stables. In 1890, he won the Preakness Stakes with Montague trained by Edward Feakes . Galway worked to improve the Stud's breeding operation that would produce the 1895 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner, Belmar . 40°55′47″N 74°13′51″W / 40.92972°N 74.23077°W / 40.92972; -74.23077 This horse racing -related article
18-460: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Preakness (horse) Preakness (1867–1881) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse . He was sired by the famed leading sire Lexington out of a mare named Bay Leaf. Preakness was from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stud in Preakness , Wayne Township , New Jersey . Preakness upset the heavily favored colt, Foster, to win
24-589: The Duke during a breeding session, he retrieved a gun and killed the colt, leading to a public outcry. As a result, there was a reform in the laws regarding the treatment of animals. Mr Sanford, the previous owner of Preakness, donated his trophy from the Dinner Party Stakes to the new race named in honour of the horse. In honor of winning the first Dixie Stakes, a new stakes race was named in honor of Preakness: The Preakness Stakes . In 2018, Preakness
30-759: The inaugural running of the Dixie Stakes (then known as the Dinner Party Stakes) on October 25, 1870, the opening day of Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland . He continued his racing career until age 9 with a record of 18-12-2 in 39 starts. After his retirement from racing, Preakness was sold to stand at stud in England. He later became temperamental, as did his new owner, the Duke of Hamilton . After an altercation where Preakness refused to obey
36-484: Was Virgil , who sired Kentucky Derby winners Hindoo , Ben Ali and Vagrant , plus Preakness Stakes winner, Vanguard , and the champion 2-year-old colt, Tremont . In 1881, the sixty-eight-year-old Milton Sanford sold the Kentucky Preakness stud and its fifty-nine horses to Daniel Swigert who renamed it Elmendorf Farm . Preakness Stud was purchased by James Galway in 1881. A prominent businessman and
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