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Still, it was always her longterm goal to move to the countryside once she retired. Moore bought the 126-acre South Gate Farm in 2015, but to say that Moore has “retired” is a bit of a stretch. She makes clear that breeding horses isn’t just a retirement hobby—it’s a commercial business for her and one that she takes seriously.A year before buying the farm, she purchased her first-ever horse, Queen Caroline, for the not-so-small price of $170,000.
“He was a great physical match for Queen Caroline,” says Moore. “He was precocious. He himself had been a successful runner when he was two years old, and he was successful running on dirt which is what the commercial market wants and his pedigree suggested that he also could sire horses that were successful running on turf, which is what Queen Caroline was good at, so he matched up with her well in a number of different ways.
“I was very fond of Forte,” says Moore, who has no regrets in selling him. “My niece and I taught him to eat carrots and taught him to load and ride in a horse trailer and gave him a lot of early lessons,She says it became clear that Forte was particularly talented If Forte wins the Derby, he would be in the running to win the triple crown—a feat that’s only been pulled off by 13 other racehorses in history, including Secretariat, another famous Virginia thoroughbred.
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