Definition of broodmare
: a mare kept for breeding
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Secretariat went on to a successful career as a stallion, but like many of the other Triple Crown winners, produced better broodmares than colts.
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SF Bloodstock purchases stallions, or shares in them, and broodmares, and sells yearlings at auctions, according to the Times.
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Sired by the late Florida Derby winner Scat Daddy and out of the 2016 Kentucky broodmare of the year, Leslie's Lady, Mendelssohn was born at Clarkland Farm in Kentucky in 2015.
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Count Glennwood, with its 400 acres and 20-30 broodmares, among the smallish farms where the mirth of having a horse in the Derby is tinged with condolence.
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She was retired after the Breeders' Cup by trainer John Sadler and sold by former owners Kosta and Pete Hronis to become a broodmare.
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Forever Unbridled was bred by Fipke himself, who bought her mother, Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever, at a broodmare sale in Keeneland, Kentucky in 2007 for $2.5 million.
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Zenyatta's success as a broodmare has not yet panned out.
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One of those mares was Somethingroyal, a daughter of the Chenery family’s outstanding broodmare Imperatrice.
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