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

 Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 racehorse
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

. He won the 2008 edition of the grade one Metropolitan Handicap, as well as two other graded stakes races: the 2007 Withers Stakes (gr. III) and the 2007 Westchester Handicap (also gr. III).

Divine Park was sold as a yearling in 2005 at the Keeneland September Auction
Keeneland Sales
The Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene...

, where he was purchased for owner James Barry by Charles Simon, agent for $20,000.

Divine Park was retired October 28, 2008, to Brereton C. Jones' Airdrie Stud
Woodburn Stud
Woodburn Stud was an American horse breeding farm located in Woodford County, Kentucky about ten miles from the city of Lexington. It was established in the 18th century as an original land grant property of General Hugh Mercer to whom it had been granted for his military services during the...

in Kentucky. His stud fee is currently $10,000 US.
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