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Make sure you check out all the latest on our new stallion Etched!
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A Full Service Thoroughbred Farm
A FARM FOR ALL SEASONS!
For All Seasons:
Breeding, foaling, breaking, training, racing
- We breed your mares to our outstanding stallions: Etched and Mojave Moon.
- We foal and raise your mares' offspring
- We break yearlings and begin their two-year-old season in training -- at our
own track!
- We train at our farm facilities, shipping to race at nearby tracks.
News of the Week!
Home Bred Ginobi breaks maiden in impressive fashion!
The 3 year old filly by Go for Gin and out of Glittering Marie drew clear after turing for home to win by 3 1/2 lengths at Charles Town on Thursday January 26th. Congrats to the Bonita Farm Partnership that owns her!
Located in Darlington, Maryland, The Heart of the Mid-Atlantic Region, we are ideally
situated to meet your breeding, training, and racing needs. Our facilities are second to none. Facilities include 156 stalls, 235 acres of pasture, a 5/8 mile dirt track, 1/2 mile turf course, steeplechase jumps,
an indoor track, as well as a turf course surrounding the entire farm.
"I've always had the concept of a one-stop facility. A place where a horseman can
board a mare, have a yearling broken, train that yearling to be a race horse,
and then retire the horse after his or her racing career is over."
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J. William (Bill) Boniface: General Manager, Partner
with Deputed Testamony: Jan. 2009. (Photo: Lydia A. Williams) |
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From beginnings near Bel Air, to outstanding facilities at Darlington,
Bonita Farm is a Farm for All Seasons!
Proud of its History,
Prepared for Today, Pointing toward Tomorrow!
The vision for Bonita Farm began on a modest 40-acre farm near Bel Air, Maryland. In the late 70's and
early 80's Bill and his wife Joan's horse operation and family expanded growing to 200 acres and
five kids. 
Then in 1983, along came two Triple Crown hopefuls, DEPUTED TESTAMONY and PARFAITEMENT.
Parafaitement won the Woodstock that year (a prep for the Kentucky Derby), had a narrow loss
to Slew o' Gold in the Wood Memorial, and earned a start in the Derby, but finished 16th.
Home-bred Deputed Testamony stayed closer to home, winning the Federico Tesio at
Pimlico and Maryland's own PREAKNESS STAKES! "Deputed Testamony certainly gave us some world
recognition," recalls Bill Boniface, "and it was noted that he wasn't a $500,000 yearling: He was
the product of a modest operation."
Deputed Testamony gave Boniface the chance to move forward with new clients and
new horses. Given new life and hope, the Bonifaces sold their Bel Air operation and moved
to the present-day Bonita Farm, building it from the ground up.
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