{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Short description|British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}
thumb|250px|Foxbridge* '''Foxbridge (GB)''' (foaled 1930) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse by Foxlaw out of Bridgemount by Bridge of Earn. His race record was 18 starts for 1 win, 3 seconds and 4 thirds.<ref name="Ahnert">Ahnert, Rainer L. (Ed. in Chief), "Thoroughbred Breeding of the World", Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970</ref> He was descended through the Bay Ronald sire line.
In 1935, the English stallion Foxbridge was purchased for £2,625 by Seton Otway and transferred to Trelawney Stud near Cambridge, New Zealand. The horse was New Zealand's most successful sire and brood-mare sire for 11 consecutive seasons.<ref name="Ahnert"/> Twice he was the British Empire's champion sire.
His female offspring were to produce five Melbourne Cup winners: Hiraji, Foxzami, Macdougal, Hi Jinx and Silver Knight. Foxbridge's potency was illustrated at Ellerslie Racecourse on Boxing Day 1944, when his progeny won six races on an eight-race card.<ref>[http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=4O10 Seton Otway]</ref>
He was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.
==See also==
* Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand
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Category:1930 racehorse births Category:Champion Thoroughbred Sires of New Zealand Category:New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame horses Category:Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Category:Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Category:New Zealand Thoroughbred sires Category:Sport in Cambridge, New Zealand Category:Thoroughbred family 14-b Category:Chefs-de-Race
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