Dungannon (horse)

Dungannon, (aka "Duncannon"), was a thoroughbred racehorse owned by the tobacco planter and horse breeder George Hume Steuart (1700–1784), who imported the horse from England[1] to race against his rival, Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1703–1783).

Dungannon won the Annapolis Subscription Plate, in May 1743, the first recorded formal horse race in colonial Maryland, and the second oldest in North America.

The Maryland Jockey Club was founded in Annapolis in 1743,[2] and racing soon came to form an important part of the social and political life of the colony.

[4] A solid silver replica of similar weight and dimensions mirroring the original Annapolis Subscription Plate was commissioned in 1955 by the Maryland Jockey Club.

[5] The Annapolis Subscription Plate has also been revived in recent years by the descendants of Dungannon's former owner, Dr George Hume Steuart, who still live at Steuart's former tobacco plantation, Dodon, today.

The Annapolis Subscription Plate won by Dungannon, said to be the oldest surviving silver object made in Maryland.
"The Dungannon Bowl" , a replica of the original Annapolis Subscription Plate , is presented to the winner of annual Dixie Stakes [ 5 ]