I am looking for contact information for Mede Cahaba Stud and Stable. (I understand Mignon Smith passed away earlier this year.) I “simply” need to know if a particular horse bred there was bred to race or bred to show. The mare has JC papers, but was unraced and thus no tattoo.
I can find no web page nor email address. Various web directories offer different phone numbers, same with the address.
I thought they were all bred to race, but could jump and were marketed to go either way. Good luck with your search.
Send me a PM-- but with a very few exceptions they were bred to race.
Mignon was from here in Alabama. She loved the 'chasers and bred for that. But she also was interested and supportive of show horses, particularly jumpers and had a hand in that as well. She bred and stood a stallion by Secretariat, and was very knowledgable about some of the older jumper bloodlines, which she and I discussed at length. Many of her mares supported those lines. Good luck with your search – some of the farms with ties to 'chasing around Maryland or Virginia should be able to help. She had horses boarded in those areas and stood Class Secret at one of them until his death.
PennyG
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She had horses boarded in those areas and stood Class Secret at one of them until his death.
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Our mare is a Class Secret daughter, out of a mare named Complete Vamp. I bought her a year ago for my then 11 year old daughter and she has been a fabulous horse - not sure there is a mean bone in her body.
Class Secret stood at Smallwood Farm in Crozet, VA - near Charlottesville for awhile. He was leased by the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Jones. You could also check with Blue Ridge Farms in VA. Class Secret was out of a mare by Mystic II (Relic-Tourbillion) - Classicality x Sirte. Mignon loved the Sirte and Clavier (x Sirte) old jumper lines and another one, I can’t recall, but will work on. His pedigree is loaded for jumping. I’m sure your mare is lovely – she was so excited about breeding a mare to Secretariat. Good luck with your search for information.
PennyG
