Selima (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Selima


caption =
sire = Godolphin ArabianCitation
last = Deubler
first = Cindy
author-link =
title = Belair Museums stand in path of "Progress"
journal = Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred
pages = 22-27
date = 2002-05
year = 2002
url = ] Citation
last = Remly
first = Lynn L.
title = Art Among the Oats: Belair Stable Museum
journal = Equine Images
volume = 2000
issue = 81
pages = 5-56
date = Fall 2002
year = 2002
id = ]
grandsire =
dam = Shireborn
damsire = Hobgoblin
sex = Mare
foaled = 1745
country = England flagicon|UK
colour = Bay
breeder =
owner = Benjamin Tasker, Jr.
record =
earnings = 2,500 pistoles
race =
awards =
honours = Selima Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse
updated= September 12, 2008

Selima was one of the most important Thoroughbred horses of the 1700s and became one of the foundation mares of the American Thoroughbred. She was imported to the Province of Maryland between 1750 and 1752 by Benjamin Tasker, Jr.

Racing

In 1752, Selima won the biggest prize of the era, 2,500 pistoles at Gloucester, Virginia which marked "the beginning of the remarkable racing contests between the rival colonies of Maryland and Virginia."

Legacy

She produced 10 foals including Selim, Ebony and Stella.

The annual Selima Stakes, now raced at Laurel Park Racecourse, was named after Selima in 1926 and first held at the Maryland State Fair with a $30,000 challenge cup for two-year-old fillies. [cite book
last = Carson
first = Jane
title = Colonial Virginians at Play
publisher = Colonial Williamsburg
year = 1965
location = Williamsburg, Virginia
pages = 125
url =
doi =
id =
isbn = 0879351225
oclc = 526839]

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/selima7 Selima at Pedigree Query]