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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.
White Abarrio is a gray stallion bred by Spendthrift Farm out of the Into Mischief mare Catching Diamonds. White Abarrio was sold as a yearling at the 2020 OBS Winter Mixed Sale for $7,500 to Jose Ordonez from Summerfield's consignment.
The colt was foaled at his Magdalena Farm near Lexington. Goldencents, a two-time Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner, stands for $10,000 at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky (2024). [ 8 ]
In 1937, he bought 127 acres in Lexington from Daniel Swigert and called it Spendthrift Farm in honor of Spendthift. [1] Together with his uncle Brownwell Combs, he owned Myrtle Charm and Myrtlewood. [1] He was also the breeder of Majestic Prince, later owned by Frank M. McMahon. [2]
Into Mischief was retired to stud at Spendthrift Farm for a fee of $12,500 for the 2009 season. [15] In order to build support, Hughes offered a lifetime breeding right to breeders who completed "stands and nurses" contracts in each of his first two years at stud. Interest in him was moderate, and his stud fee dropped to $7,500 by 2012. [19] [20]
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Forte will enter stud in 2024 at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky for a fee of $50,000. [ 30 ] The first foal by Forte, a bay filly out of the Collected mare 's Gravy, was born on January 8 at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington, Kentucky .
The widely respected African-American trainer and future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Edward Brown race conditioned the two-year-old Spendthrift for Daniel Swigert. . After leading the colt through an undefeated year that would retrospectively see him named the American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Colt of 1878, he was then sold to James R. Keene for $15,000 (based on inflation only equal to ...