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The site continues to operate as the Helis Stock Farm, and is run by Linda and Ed Lovenduski. The more than 2,000-acre (8.1 km) farm includes a number of original Rancocas Stable-era buildings that can be seen from the roadside; including a training barn with 1,100 windows enclosing a half-mile
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Harry Sinclair would invest considerable funds to continue the Rancocas breeding and racing success, making it one of the dominant racing stables in the United States during the 1920s. For Sinclair, trainer
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purchased the 1,300-acre (5.3 km) farm and in 1946 acquired adjoining acreage to bring it up to 2,040 acres (8.3 km). On his death in 1950, management of the property was taken over by his son,
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On the death of Pierre Lorillard, Rancocas Stable was inherited by Sarah "Lily" Barnes-Allien-Livingston. She sold it in 1919 to
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and moved to Canada where she set up her own breeding and racing operation that would see her inducted into the
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Personal problems culminating in a prison term for his part in what became known in American history as the
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breeding and training operations in the United States. Lorillard bred
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Among the jockeys who rode for Rancocas Stable were Hall of Famers
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October 13, 1921 article in the New York Times on Rancocas Stable
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stood there. Such was the fame of Rancocas Stable that the
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Buildings and structures in Burlington County, New Jersey
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became the first American-owned and -bred horse to win a
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classic race. Ridden by the champion English jockey,
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but never managed a win. Two of the stable's colts,
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Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
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caption =Helis Stock Farm, January 2011
Horse breeding
Racing
stable
Thoroughbred
horse racing
Jobstown
New Jersey
U.S.
Pierre Lorillard IV
Lily A. Livingston
Harry F. Sinclair
William G. Helis, Sr.
thoroughbred horse racing
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