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Coventry (foaled 1922 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Edward Simms the owner of Xalapa Farm in Paris Kentucky who had purchased his sire Negofol from the Haras du Quesnay in Normandy France owned by the estate of the wealthy American Willie K. Vanderbilt’s.Consigned to the 1923 yearling auction Coventry was sold for $25000 to New York carpet manufacturer Gifford A. Cochran. In 1925 Coventry’s training was handled by future U.S.