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Though many horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed. Alternatively, a breeder could, using individuals of differing phenotypes, create a new breed with specific characteristics.
These horses are true breeds that have a preferred color, not color breeds, and include the Friesian horse, the Cleveland Bay, the Appaloosa, and the American Paint Horse. The best-known "color breed" registries that accept horses from many different breeds are for the following colors:
However, a few fillies and mares have won classic horse races against colts, including the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, the Melbourne Cup and the Breeders' Cup Classic. Mares are used as dairy animals in some cultures, especially by the nomads and formerly nomadic peoples of Central Asia.
Breeders’ Cup Classic pre-entries. Horses pre-entered Wednesday for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 2, 2024: Arthur’s Ride. City of Troy. Derma Sotogake.
The Classic is one of nine Breeders’ Cup races scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 4, a lineup that also includes the Distaff, Turf, Mile, Sprint, Filly and Mare Turf, Dirt Mile, Turf Sprint and Filly ...
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for fillies and mares, three years old and up.It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
White Abarrio, winner of the 2023 Breeders' Cup Classic, ... who also won the $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational with Be Your Best ($16.80 to win).
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is a 7-furlong (1408 m) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred fillies and mares three years old and up. As its name implies, it is a part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, generally held in the United States (also held one time in Canada).