Sagamore Farm

Sagamore Farm
	Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, owner until 1986 ; Kevin Plank, current owner
Website	sagamoreracing.com

Sagamore Farm is an American

Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Jr. for his twenty-first birthday. As a member of New York's wealthy Vanderbilt family, Alfred would become the owner and president of Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. He also became President of Belmont Park. As well, he served at various times as head of the New York Racing Association and the United States Jockey Club

.

In 1938, Vanderbilt staged the famous match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral at Pimlico. In 1941, Vanderbilt teamed up with Walter P. Chrysler Jr. and other investors to acquire for breeding services the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III. Bahram stood at stud at Sagamore Farm then was sent to Chrysler's North Wales Stud in Warrenton, Virginia. In 1966, Vanderbilt was part of another syndicate that bought Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Kauai King who would also stand at stud at Sagamore Farm.

The Vanderbilt/Sagamore Farm best known racehorses were

Bed o'Roses, and Native Dancer, all of whom were inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

. Native Dancer is considered one of the greatest race horses of all time.

Vanderbilt sold the farm to developer James Ward in 1986. In 2007 Maryland native

Tufton Avenue

.

On November 5, 2010, a Sagamore Farm owned racemare named Shared Account won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. She defeated 2009 winner Midday, one of the top-rated horses in the world.^[3]

On November 5, 2020, Sagamore Farm announced that they were shifting from breeding and training champion Thoroughbred race horses to growing grains for the Sagamore Spirit brand, which already uses limestone-filtered spring water from Sagamore Farm to distill its line of signature award-winning Maryland rye whiskey.^[4]

References

^ https://maps.google.com/places/us/md/reisterstown/belmont-ave/3510/-sagamore-farm-llc?hl=en&gl=us ^{[dead link]}
^ "Saving Sagamore". Maryland Life. 2008-05-01. Archived from the original on 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
^ Breeders' Cup, Inc. Retrieved August 14, 2018
^ Sagamore Farm: Transitioning From Reins To Grains Retrieved November 9, 2020

External links

Video at YouTube of the HRTV program on the history of Sagamore Farm

39°29′29″N 76°46′24″W / 39.49139°N 76.77333°W / 39.49139; -76.77333

[1] ttps://maps.google.com/places/us/md/reisterstown/belmont-ave/3510/-sagamore-farm-llc?hl=en&gl=us ^{[dead link]}

[2] "Saving Sagamore". Maryland Life. 2008-05-01. Archived from the original on 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2008-09-12.

[3] Breeders' Cup, Inc. Retrieved August 14, 2018

[4] Sagamore Farm: Transitioning From Reins To Grains Retrieved November 9, 2020

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