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Kinghaven Farms is a horse racing stable that was founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot.Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a 660-acre (2.7 km 2) farm and training center near Ocala, Florida.
In 1984, the horse began competing in show jumping events, touching off what would become a long and successful career. Millar rode Big Ben to more than 40 Grand Prix titles including six Spruce Meadows Derbys, as well as taking the world cup show jumping championship two years in a row - the first World Cup Final coming at Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, and then again the next year in Tampa ...
It was first recognized as a separate sub-group in the 19th century, but today is considered a separate breed, even though its ancestry is entirely from the Ardennes horses of Belgium and France. [18] Another closely related breed is the Auxois. Ardennes horses were also used in the 1920s to improve the Comtois by adding size.
Hill 'n' Dale was founded in 1960 in Ontario, Canada by Czechoslovakian immigrant John Sikura Jr. [1] Following John's death in an automobile accident in 1994, [2] Hill 'n' Dale's American and Canadian operations were taken over by sons John G. Sikura and R. Glenn Sikura, respectively.
Windfields Farm in Ontario was the birthplace of racing great and champion sire Northern Dancer, winner of the 1964 Kentucky Derby (in stakes record time), the Preakness Stakes, and the Queen's Plate. Northern Dancer was retired after the 1964 racing season and started a career at stud in Ontario, before being moved in 1969 [1] to
The studbook was renamed in 1984 to include the designation 'Sport Horse'. [4] [7] The name change was registered the following year in the Official Trademark Journal. [8] The breed was renamed Canadian Sport Horse in 1987. [9] [4] Many of the horses are in Ontario. [2] [10] Numbers were growing in 2014. [9]
The Belgian Sport Horse, Dutch: Belgisch Sportpaard, French: Cheval de Sport Belge, is a Belgian breed of warmblood sport horse. It is one of three Belgian warmblood breeds or stud-books, the others being the Belgian Warmblood and the Zangersheide. It is bred for dressage, for show-jumping and for three-day eventing. [4]: 164
The Belgian Trotter originates from cross-breeding of local carriage and saddle horses with imported Thoroughbred stock, and so may also be called ' Halfbloeddraver ' or 'half-blood trotter'. [ 3 ] : 12 It has been influenced by the American Standardbred , the German Trotter and the French Trotter , to which it is closely similar, although it ...