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Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses.
Calumet Farm is a 762-acre (3.08 km 2) Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of the Bluegrass, a well-known horse breeding region.
The Crabbet Arabian Stud, also known as the Crabbet Park Stud, was an English horse breeding farm that ran from 1878 to 1972. Its founder owners, husband and wife team Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt , decided while travelling in the Middle East to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed them there.
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Spendthrift Farm is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm and burial site in Lexington, Kentucky, currently owned by Eric & Tammy Gustavson. [1] It was founded by Leslie Combs II and named for the great stallion Spendthrift, who was owned by Combs' ancestor, Daniel Swigert of Elmendorf Farm. Spendthrift was the great-grandfather of Man o' War.
Once the stud farm was occupied by Wehrmacht German troops, Gustav Rau, commissioner for horse breeding and stud farms in the General Government, appeared. It resulted in some famous breeding stallions, such as Witraż and Wielki Szlem, being returned to Janów, as well as other purebred horses.
California Chrome was foaled on February 18, 2011, [3] near Coalinga, California, at Harris Farms, the horse breeding division of the Harris Ranch. [6] He is a chestnut with four white stockings [a] and a blaze. [7] At four years old, he stood 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) tall. [8] California Chrome in his stall at Pimlico Race Course, May 2014
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