Sagamore Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm on Belmont Avenue in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland. Founded in 1925, the company is owned by Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt who gave it to his son Alfred G. Vanderbilt II for his twenty-first birthday. As a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family in New York, Alfred will be the owner and president of the Baltimore Pimlico Race Course. In addition, he served at various times as the head of the New York Racing Association and the Jockey Club of the United States.
In 1941, Vanderbilt worked with Walter P. Chrysler Jr. and other investors to win the 1935 British Triple Crown winning service Bahram from Aga Khan III. Bahram stood in stud at Sagamore Farm then sent to Chrysler's North Wales Stud in Warrenton, Virginia. In 1966, Vanderbilt was part of another syndicate that purchased Kentucky Derby and the winner of Preakness Stakes, Kauai King who would also stand in stud at Sagamore Farm.
The famous Vanderbilt/Sagamore Farms racetrack is Discovery, Bed o'Roses, and Native Dancer, all inaugurated to the National Museum of Racing and the Hall of Fame.
Vanderbilt sold the farm to developer James Ward in 1986. In 2007, native Maryland, Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armor clothing company, bought farmland with a long-term plan for a major restoration. The horseback architect, John Blackburn of Blackburn Architects [1] in Washington, D.C. is renovating a farm that includes a historic 90-stall granite training center with quarter-mile interior lanes. The facility is across from Maryland Stallion Station. The back of the facility is visible from Tufton Avenue.
On November 5, 2010, Sagamore Farms' horse named Shared Account won $ 2 million Breeders Cup Fillies and Mares races. He defeated one of the best horses in the world, Noon.
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References
- Maryland Life magazine article by Jason Tinney entitled Saving Store
- Videos on the HRTV's YouTube program on Sagamore Farm's history
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