Calumet farm ruled horse racing from the 1940s to the 1960s. Inherited by Warren Wright in 1931 claumet turned from a harness racing stable into an establishment horse racing will never see the likes of again. Having such racing greats as Citation,Whirlaway and many more. When Wright died in 1950 his widow took over,who later married Admiral Gene Markey. Though Calument did not have the same amount of success later on,it still produced 1970's champs Mims,Davona Dale, and Alydar. Who ran 2nd in all the 1978 triple crown races.Markey died in 1982. Then the farm was turned over to JT Lundy,Lundy had married Markey's grand-daughter. Lundy forced calumet depper and depper into debt,untill in 1991 filed for bankruptcy, $127 million owed.Then farm was the sold off to Henryk de Kwiatkowski. (did i spell that right lol) He restored calumet,though it will never really be the same. Today Henryk's children continue to run this wonderful farm. Enjoy! :D
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