Loblolly Stable was a

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and

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owned by businessman John Ed Anthony and his former wife Mary Lynn. The stable's first top runner was

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who won important races in 1977 and 1978 and went on to become an excellent

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. Loblolly Stable had back-to-back wins in the

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in 1992 and 1993 with Pine Bluff and

Prairie Bayou Prairie Bayou (March 4, 1990 – June 5, 1993) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse owned and bred by Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas. Named for a bayou between Little Rock and Hot Springs in Arkansas, he was sired by Litt ...

respectively and also won the 1980

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with

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. Having dissolved their marriage, in 1994 the owners agreed to wind up the stable operation and began selling off some of its mares and yearlings at the

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. Eclipse Award winners: *

- American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (1980) *

Vanlandingham Vanlandingham (foaled April 28, 1981, in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Background Owned by Arkansas businessman John Ed Anthony, Vanlandingham was bred and raced by the Loblolly Stable. He was conditioned for racin ...

- U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1985) *

- U.S. Champion 3-Year-old Colt (1993) Other

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winners include Little Missouri, Demons Begone, De Roche, and Lost Mountain. A native of Bearden, Arkansas, in 2001 John Ed Anthony was inducted in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.

Shortleaf Stable

Loblolly Stable's successor was John Ed Anthony's Shortleaf Stable named after a horse that won two races in 2005. Revived in 2000 Shortleaf Stable began to reorganize itself in earnest in 2010 with the assistance of his son Edward Anthony. In 2018 Plainsmen won the GIII Discovery Stakes at

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, the first stakes win since 1997.

References

External links

New York Times announcement of 1994 winding up of Loblolly Stable

Loblolly Stable at the NTRA
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