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Ruffian, owned and bred by Stuart and Barbara Janney, was foaled on April 17, 1972, at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. The Janney’s were truly horsepeople. An amateur steeplechase rider, Stuart Janney had won the famed Maryland Hunt Cup four times, and Mrs. Janney was a daughter of Gladys Phipps, one of the top thoroughbred [...]

Seattle Slew was foaled at Ben Castleman’s White Horse Acres on February 15 of 1974. The dark bay colt was by Bold Reasoning, a grandson of Bold Ruler, and out of the stakes winning mare My Charmer, a female line descendant of the great race mare Myrtlewood. At the time, his breeding seemed modest, but [...]

 Secretariat was foaled ten minutes after midnight, on the morning of March 30, 1970, at Chris T. Chenery’s Meadow Farm in Doswell, Virginia. He was an impressively large and strikingly attractive chestnut colt, with three white stockings and a white star and stripe.His sire, Bold Ruler, was a champion on the racetrack and boasted an [...]