Foxbridge
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Foxbridge (GB) (foaled 1930) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse by Foxlaw out of Bridgemount by Bridge of Earn. His race record was 18 starts for 1 win, 3 seconds and 4 thirds.Ahnert, Rainer L. (Ed. in Chief), "Thoroughbred Breeding of the World", Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970
In 1935, the English stallion Foxbridge was purchased for £2,625 by Seton Otway and imported into New Zealand. Here he was a very successful sire at Trelawney Stud near Cambridge, New Zealand. This remarkably consistent horse was New Zealand's most successful sire and brood-mare sire for 11 consecutive seasons. Twice he was the British Empire's champion sire.
His female offspring were to produce five Melbourne Cup winners: Hiraji, Foxzami, Macdougal, Hi Jinx and Silver Knight. Foxbridge's potency was illustrated at Ellerslie Racecourse on Boxing Day 1944, when his progeny won six races on an eight-race card.[http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=4O10 Seton Otway]
He was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.
See also
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Category:1930 racehorse births
Category:Champion Thoroughbred Sires of New Zealand
Category:New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame horses
Category:Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Category:Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Category:New Zealand Thoroughbred sires
Category:Sport in Cambridge, New Zealand
Category:Thoroughbred family 14-b
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