A breed of large domestic pig with reddish-brown coloring, originally developed in the United States.
Named after Duroc, a famous thoroughbred horse owned by Isaac Van Tassel in New York during the early 1800s; the name was applied to this pig breed as a mark of prestige and pedigree.
It's wild that a famous horse's name became permanently attached to a pig breed—agricultural breeders in the 1800s were so influenced by the success of purebred horses that they started copying the naming tradition for livestock.
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