Brookmeade Stable was a successful thoroughbred horse racing stable owned by heiress and socialite Isabel Dodge Sloane

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane was an American heiress and socialite who owned a major Thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm....

. Sloane first won using the name Brookmeade Stable at the Manly Memorial Steeplechase at Pimlico

Pimlico Race Course

Pimlico Race Course is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Its name is derived from the 1660s when English settlers named the area where the facility currently stands in honor of Olde Ben Pimlico's Tavern in London...

 in 1924.

If 1929, Sloane divorced and expanded her interest in horse racing. She purchased 850 acres (3.4 km²) in Upperville, Virginia

Upperville, Virginia

Upperville is an unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, located along U.S. Route 50 fifty miles from downtown Washington, D.C.. Founded in the 1790s along Pantherskin Creek, it was originally named Carrstown by first settler Josephus Carr...

, again using the name Brookemeade Stable. Sloane later developed the estate into a breeding farm, Brookmeade Stud, producing several successful race horses, including Sword Dancer. Brookemeade Stable raced several other winning horses, including High Quest

High Quest

High Quest was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1934 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series of races....

 and Cavalcade

Cavalcade (horse)

Cavalcade was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.In the early 1930s, Bob Smith, a trainer with a history of spotting talent, had been hired by heiress Isabel Dodge Sloane to stock her newly formed Brookmeade Stable. A descendant of the 1893 English Triple Crown champion...

.

Brookemeade's success allowed Sloane to become the first woman to lead the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

in race earning in 1934, with $251,138.