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Glen Riddle Farm was a large horse farm in Berlin, Maryland in the United States. Located on what today is Route 50 between Ocean City and Berlin, it was owned by a wealthy textile businessman Samuel D. Riddle who named it for his home town Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania which in turn had been named for his grandfather. Riddle also owned Faraway Farm, a breeding operation in Lexington, Kentucky.

In addition to the stables and large mansion, Glen Riddle Farm had a one-mile racing oval for training thoroughbred racehorses. The farm was home to Hall of Fame racehorses Man O' War, War Admiral, Crusader as well as other successful thoroughbreds. Samuel D. Riddle raced horses until his death in 1951 after which his heirs took over the property. A fire in 1969 destroyed the mansion and the farm was soon abandoned, left in disrepair for more than thirty years until real estate developers acquired it and built a residential housing complex in 2004.

Gen Riddle Farm's horses won numerous important stakes races including the following prestigious U.S. Triple Crown races:

Kentucky Derby:
*1937 : War Admiral

Preakness Stakes:
*1920 : Man O' War
*1937 : War Admiral

Belmont Stakes:
*1920 : Man O' War
*1925 : American Flag
*1926 : Crusader
*1937 : War Admiral

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