Sam-Son Farm
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Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable in Milton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in the 60’s by Ernie Samuel, it originally was home to equestrian horses and remains so today by co-owner and Canadian Equestrian Federation director, Mark Samuel. However, in 1971 it became home to its first thoroughbred race horse.
Sam-Son Farm is a four-time winner of the Queen's Plate, Canada's most important horse race. In 1991, the stable won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner after its horses established a new world record for race earnings. Under trainers Jim Day, and then Mark Frostad who took over in 1995, Sam-Son Farm has won eight Sovereign Awards for outstanding owner and seven for outstanding breeder.
Some of their great thoroughbred racehorses include:
- Chief Bearhart - won the 1997 Breeders' Cup Turf and was named the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse and a two-time Canadian Horse of the Year;
- Dance Smartly - undefeated in the 1991 racing season, en route to winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff, she became the only filly to ever win the Canadian Triple Crown. She won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Filly in North America and in 2003 was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame;
- Dancethruthedawn - won the 2001 Queens' Plate and the Grade 1 Go For Wand Handicap at Saratoga Race Course
- Regal Classic - Sovereign Award for Outstanding Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse
- Sky Classic - Sovereign Award for Outstanding Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, 1992 Sovereign and Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse, Sovereign Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse.
Following the death of her father in 2000, operations of the farm were taken over by Tammy Samuel-Balaz. The business uses the Milton, Ontario farm as a broodmare installation and maintains a training facility in Ocala, Florida.
