Out of the mare

Mare

Female horses are called mares.Mare is the Latin word for "sea".The word may also refer to:-People:* Ahmed Marzooq, also known as Mare, a footballer and Secretary General of Maldives Olympic Committee* Mare Winningham, American actress and singer...

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Henbit (1977-1997) was an American

United States

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-bred and British

United Kingdom

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-trained Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 race horse

Horse racing

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, winner of the Epsom Derby

Epsom Derby

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 in 1980. He was bred in Kentucky

Kentucky

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 by Helen Drake Jones, owner of Mineola Farm near Lexington

Lexington, Kentucky

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. His sire was Hawaii

Hawaii (horse)

Hawaii was a South African bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion at age two and three in South Africa after which he was sent to race in the United States by owner Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. where he was voted the 1969 American Champion Turf Horse honors...

, a South African Champion at two and three and then in the United States, the 1969 American Champion Turf Horse. Out of the mare

Mare

Female horses are called mares.Mare is the Latin word for "sea".The word may also refer to:-People:* Ahmed Marzooq, also known as Mare, a footballer and Secretary General of Maldives Olympic Committee* Mare Winningham, American actress and singer...

 Chateaucreek, Henbit's damsire was the 1963 Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

 winner and American Champion Three-Year-Old Colt, Chateaugay

Chateaugay (horse)

Chateaugay was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who won two of the three U.S. Triple Crown races. Bred at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington, Kentucky by his prominent owner, John W. Galbreath, Chateaugay was a son of Swaps, the 1956 U.S. Horse of the Year and a Racing Hall of Fame...

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Purchased by French

France

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 horsewoman Etti Plesch

Etti Plesch

Etti Plesch, , Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner and socialite. Plesch lost two of her six husbands to the same woman, Louise de Vilmorin, a French literary figure, and owned two winners of the Epsom Derby, in Psidium in 1961 and Henbit in1980.Born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine...

, Henbit made her the first woman to win the Epsom Derby twice, first accomplishing that feat in 1961 with Psidium

Psidium (horse)

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, owned in partnership with her husband. She and her husband had also won the 1970 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,400 metres , and it is scheduled to take place each year, usually on the first Sunday in October.Popularly referred to as the...

 in 1970 with Sassafras

Sassafrás (horse)

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At stud

Retired to stud

Horse breeding

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 in England, from 454 starters Henbit sired 152 race winners including 12 stakes

Conditions races

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winners.

Hebit died at age twenty in 1997.