Spendthrift Farm
| Company type | Horse breeding stud farm and Thoroughbred racing stable |
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| Industry | Thoroughbred horse racing |
| Headquarters | 884 Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Kentucky |
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| Website | http://spendthriftfarm.com/ |
Spendthrift Farm is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm and burial site in Lexington, Kentucky, currently owned by Eric & Tammy Gustavson. It was founded by Leslie Combs II and named for the great stallion Spendthrift, who was owned by Combs' ancestor, Daniel Swigert of Elmendorf Farm. Spendthrift was the great-grandfather of Man o' War.
Although Spendthrift Farm is known mostly as a commercial breeding operation, they maintain a small racing stable as well. Their most notable runners are Beholder, a four-time Eclipse Award winning mare; Lord Nelson, a three-time Grade I winning sprinter; Court Vision, who won the Breeders' Cup Mile; and Tamara, a Grade 1 winning daughter of Beholder and Bolt d'Oro.