Calumet Farm has a record history of Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown winners and continues to be unmatched worldwide.
Calumet Farm is located in the heart of the Bluegrass region, nestled amidst rolling green hills, elegant old trees, and its legendary miles of white fences. Just a stone’s throw from historic Keeneland Race Course, Calumet is conveniently located near Thoroughbred breeding meccas Lexington, Paris, and Versailles. Calumet Farm offers a complete range of first class breeding and training facilities.
• 800 acres; 19 barns, 210 stalls
• 3/4 mile dirt track, 5/8 mile turf
• Six-horse electric starting gate test
• Aqua treadmill
HISTORY
CALUMET FARM was established in 1924 on the site of Fairland Farm by William Monroe Wright, who made his fortune in Chicago, manufacturing baking powder. Wright, who established Calumet as a trotter's nursery, bred premier harness racing horses there. His son, Warren, succeeded him in the business, and, after inheriting the elder Wright's estate, one of the largest fortunes in America, in 1933, determined flat racing was both more lucrative and more exciting, and Calumet was converted to a thoroughbred farm. Over the decades, Calumet bred many of the nation's top race horses, among them Triple Crown winners WHIRLAWAY and CITATION, the first filly Horse of the Year, TWILIGHT TEAR, such Kentucky Derby winners as PENSIVE and PONDER, and many other familiar names that catapulted the farm into the top three of America racing stables for seventeen straight years. When Wright died in 1950, his widow, Lucille, who later married Gene Markey, continued the tradition, breeding four Derby winners -- HILL GAIL, IRON LIEGE, TIM TAM, FORWARD PASS, and many other winners, among them, in her last years, the game ALYDAR.
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