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Iron Liege, a tough luck colt that was considered the 3rd best of Calumet’s 1954 crop, would go on to become Calumet’s 6th Kentucky Derby winner.
Iron Liege, a tough luck colt that was considered the 3rd best of Calumet’s 1954 crop, would go on to become Calumet’s 6th Kentucky Derby winner.
Needles was bred by William E. Leach, who bought the winning Jack High mare, Noodle Soup, while in foal to the Kentucky Derby winner Ponder.
Swaps was bred and owned by Rex C. Ellsworth, who bought the stallion *Khaled from the Aga Khan.
Determine, the first grey to win the Kentucky Derby, was bred by Dr. Eslie Asbury, a Cincinnati surgeon who owned Forest Retreat Farm near Carlisle, Kentucky.
Dark Star was a brown colt by the Australian sire *Royal Gem II, out of the Bull Dog mare, Isolde.
Hill Gail, the winner of the 1952 Kentucky Derby, was the 5th of Calumet Farm’s 8 winners
1951 Count Turf was sired by Triple Crown winner, Count Fleet, becoming the third Derby winner in a three generation family tree.
Middleground was the second Kentucky Derby winner for owner Robert J. Kleberg’s King Ranch in Texas.
