Binglin Stable
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Horse breeding Farm & Thoroughbred Racing Stable |
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| Industry | Thoroughbred Horse racing |
| Defunct | 1953 |
| Headquarters |
Moorpark, California United States |
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Key people
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Bing Crosby & Lindsay Howard (co-owners) Albert Johnson, trainer |
Binglin Stable in Moorpark, Ventura County, California was a farm established during the latter part of the 1930s to race and breed Thoroughbred horses. The stable was owned by entertainer Bing Crosby and close friend, Lindsay Howard. Crosby was a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing who in 1937 became a founding partner and member of the Board of Directors of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, operators of Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Lindsay Howard's father, Charles S. Howard, was a millionaire businessman who was also a founding partner and director of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and who owned a successful racing stable that included the 1938 U.S. Horse of the Year, Seabiscuit. Upon his retirement from riding, future Hall of Fame jockey Albert Johnson, a childhood friend of Crosby, became the stable's trainer.
Lindsay Howard was a top-ranked polo player as was his brother, Robert. They frequently played in Argentina, the polo capital of the world, and as such the brothers and Crosby decided to establish "Caballeriza Binglin Stock Farm" near Buenos Aires where they purchased a number of locally bred horses and shipped them back to the United States. As well, Binglin Stable raced horses at Hipódromo de Palermo in Palermo, notably the mare Blackie. [1] whom they later sent to the US to serve as a broodmare. Blackie would appear on the cover of the September 19, 1942 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine.
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