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Horse Racing - MSN Encarta (1355 words) |
 | Especially well known are the three classic races for three-year-olds in the United States, known collectively as the Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky; the Preakness Stakes, at Pimlico, near Baltimore, Maryland; and the Belmont Stakes, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, near New York City. |
 | Stakes races usually involve horses of the same age and sex, all of which are initially assigned the same weight. |
 | Stakes races derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay. |
| Ornament (1470 words) |
 | She foaled four stakes winners, including the On Watch filly War Plumage, who became champion three-year-old filly in the United States in 1939, when she captured the Coaching Club American Oaks and the Alabama Stakes. |
 | She ran fourth to Ard Patrick in the Derby Stakes, but easily came back the next day to win the Oaks, and in the fall soundly defeated the colts in the St. Leger, thereby becoming the only horse in history to win four English classics. |
 | Retired from the turf in 1904, she was sent to the stud in 1905; in her long career at stud she produced eight foals, all but one of them fillies, and except for her first foal, the filly Maid of the Mist (1906, by Cyllene) her success as a broodmare could be considered a failure. |