Dotsam Stable was an American

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owned by

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businessman Sam Rubin and his wife Dorothy. Sam Rubin (February 23, 1914- February 13, 2006) was a successful

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importer and a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing. In 1978 he and wife Dorothy paid $25,000 sight unseen for a then three-year-old

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named

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. The temperamental horse had previously had three different owners, none of whom had achieved any success with him on the racetrack. Racing under the Rubin's ''

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'' Dotsam Stable, John Henry became one of the most successful Thoroughbreds in American

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history. He won seven

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s including two for

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, retired with career earnings of $6,591,860, and was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1981, the New York Turf Writers Association honored Sam Rubin as the "Person Who Did Most for Racing" and as racing's "Outstanding Owner." That same year, Dotsam Stable was voted the

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. John Henry was retired to the

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and the Rubins have donated his trophies to the horse park. Sam Rubin died in 2006 in

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, ten days short of his ninety-second birthday.

References

{{reflist, refs= {{cite book , last = Hollingsworth , first = K. , title = The Kentucky Thoroughbred , publisher = University Press of Kentucky , series = UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , year = 2011 , isbn = 978-0-8131-3337-9 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-qVRdSoTEBwC&pg=PA170 , access-date = 10 July 2018 , page = 170
''Thoroughbred Times'' obituary for Sam Rubin with history of Dotsam Stable
(retrieved October 3, 2007)

Rubin Rubin is both a surname and a given name. Rubins is a Latvian-language name.It derives from the biblical name Reuben as a Jewish name. The choice is also influenced by the word ''rubin'' meaning "ruby," in some languages.Eclipse Award winners