where is the equestrian fag thread? Sorry slightly brain damaged abbienormal.
Maximum Security vs Country House
Who bet on Country House and what is the message (they) were trying to send?
Related:
Lane’s End = Country House
Owned by:
Friend of:
Supported also HRC:
Blue Blood’s & Old Money – keeping it all in the ‘family’ – familiar terms (family, company, etc.).
Can you DIG IT!!!
He is batman - 80's Dark Knight Triumphant Batman!
noice
"Bush spends that kind of time with Farish, too. The men watch movies, hunt game and play tennis."
William S. Farish - Ambassador to England
Sauce:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-06-vw-249-story.html
"Farish says that his friendship with Queen Elizabeth II is all about horses. From the moment her Royal Air Force jetliner touched down at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport until she left three days later, the talk was horses, horses, horses. It was the queen's third visit to Farish's farm, and she's expected back this year. Each time, he says, there's a rough agenda of meetings with leading horsemen, breeders, veterinarians."
"She's an expert, and she can ask very penetrating questions," he says, not stopping for a moment to notice how improbable it sounds for the queen of England to fly eight hours for the chance to cross-examine a few Kentucky horse doctors."
"The queen owns about two dozen mares, and each trip to Kentucky gives her a chance to set up those mares with the leading stallions. There's never any stud fee charged the queen, and the Lexington Herald-Leader (((estimated last year that the royal purse saved about $800,000 from not paying the fees)))."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_III
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/2019/05/04/kentucky-derby-bloodlines-country-house-lookin-at-lucky/3612065002/
Country House, the 145th winner of the Kentucky Derby, is a son of Lookin At Lucky, a champion of the Preakness Stakes, and the War Chant mare Quake Lake.
The Chestnut colt was foaled in Kentucky on May 8, 2016. The owner-breeder was J.V. Shields Jr., who died in October. Shields was 80 years old.
Maury Shields (Mrs. J. V. Shields Jr.) formerly worked in the special client services department at Sotheby's in New York. Her father was the founder and chairman of Flowers Industries, a Georgia-based food company, and was a former democratic state senator. Her late husband, Jerry Shields, was a Georgetown University graduate who had a Wall Street career spanning 56 years. In 1982, he founded Shields & Co. with his brother David; Jerry Shields was also a top horse owner and breeder as well as a philanthropist.
Guinness McFadden (E. J. M. McFadden Jr.,) is the nephew of Mrs. Shields, and he first attended a race with her and Mr. Shields in 1996. He began his career in the horse industry in 2007 at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky, and McFadden currently owns and operates Blackwood Stables in Kentucky.
hummm McFadden you say?
https://www.americasbestracing.net/owners/shields-jr-mrs-jv-mcfadden-jr-ejm-and-lnj-foxwoods