Two foals born on the Campus Farm receive their racing names!
Image Credit: Edwin Remsberg
More than 1,600 votes were cast to help choose racing names for two thoroughbred foals born on the University of Maryland Campus Farm this spring. And the winning names are:
Diamondback Fire for a colt (by Friesan Fire out of Daylight Lassie) born March 8 (left).
Maryland Miss for a filly (by Cherokee’s Boy out of Amazin) born April 15 (right).
*The winning names are still subject to Jockey Club approval.
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) invited the entire UMD community to submit suggested racing names for the two foals and received close to 1,000 responses. The entries were narrowed down to five finalists for each foal and put up for an online vote. The following is a breakdown of the results:
Colt (by Friesan Fire out of Daylight Lassie):
Diamondback Fire: 587
Red Terp Rising: 374
Blazin Terp: 307
Terrapin’s Pride: 250
Terptastic: 155
Filly (by Cherokee’s Boy out of Amazin):
Maryland Miss: 820
Terrapin Spirit: 362
Terrapin Girl: 204
Amazin Terp: 167
Terp’s Amazin Girl: 111
The two new members of the Terrapin family are the first foals to be born on the Campus Farm in 30 years. Their dams (mothers) live on a rotational grazing site at one of the university’s larger research farms in nearby Howard County but they spent the final leg of their pregnancies here on campus so students could learn first-hand about equine reproduction and witness live foalings. For more on the program, watch the video below or visit http://www.ansc.umd.edu/equinestudies/
