- Glen Riddle Farm
Glen Riddle Farm was a large
horse farm inBerlin, Maryland in theUnited States . Located on what today is Route 50 between Ocean City and Berlin, it was owned by a wealthy textile businessmanSamuel D. Riddle who named it for his home town Glen Riddle,Pennsylvania which in turn had been named for his grandfather.In addition to the stables and large mansion, Glen Riddle Farm had a one-mile racing oval for training
thoroughbred racehorse s. The farm was home to Hall of Fame racehorsesMan o' War , U.S. Triple Crown winnerWar Admiral , Crusader as well as other successful thoroughbreds such asMassachusetts Handicap winnerWar Relic , and American Flag, a son of Man o' War who won the 1925Belmont Stakes and was voted Champion 3-year-old Male Horse.As part of a program honoring important horse racing tracks and racing stables, the
Pennsylvania Railroad named its baggage car #5849 the "Glen Riddle Farm".Samuel D. Riddle raced horses until his death in 1951 after which his heirs took over the property. A fire in 1969 destroyed the mansion and the farm was soon abandoned, left in disrepair for more than thirty years until real estate developers acquired it and built a residential housing complex in 2004.
In the mid 1920s, Samuel Riddle acquired
Faraway Farm inLexington, Kentucky where he would send his broodmares along with Man o' War, American Flag, and other stallions.Gen Riddle Farm's horses won numerous important
stakes race s including the following prestigious U.S. Triple Crown races:*
Kentucky Derby :
**1937 :War Admiral *
Preakness Stakes :
**1920 :Man o' War
**1937 :War Admiral *
Belmont Stakes :
**1920 :Man o' War
**1925 : American Flag
**1926 : Crusader
**1937 :War Admiral
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