Bold Ruler

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Bold Ruler
Sire Nasrullah
Grandsire Nearco
Dam Miss Disco
Damsire Discovery
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1954
Country United States
Colour Brown
Breeder Wheatley Stable
Owner Wheatley Stable, racing colors: yellow, purple sleeves and cap
Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons
Record 33:23-4-2
Earnings $764,204
Major wins
Futurity Stakes (1956)
Bahamas Stakes (1957)
Flamingo Stakes (1957)
Wood Memorial (1957)
Queens County Handicap (1957)
Trenton Handicap (1957)
Stymie Handicap (1958)
Carter Handicap (1958)
Suburban Handicap (1958)
Toboggan Handicap (1958)

American Classic Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (1957)
Awards
U.S. 3-Yr-Old Champion Male (1957)
U.S. Horse of the Year (1957)
U.S. Champion Sprint Horse (1958)
Leading sire in North America
(1963-1969, 1973)
Honours
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1973)
Bold Ruler Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)

Bold Ruler (1954–1971) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse.

Bred by the Wheatley Stable of Gladys Mills Phipps, Bold Ruler was foaled on April 6, 1954 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky to Nasrullah and Miss Disco by Discovery. In an interesting coincidence, he and Round Table were foaled on the same night at Claiborne, and both returned to stand at stud there after their racing careers.[1] He was trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, and was regularly ridden by Eddie Arcaro.

As a three-year-old, Bold Ruler won the 1957 Flamingo Stakes while breaking a track record, and then won the Wood Memorial Stakes. In the U.S. Triple Crown races, Bold Ruler went off as the heavy 6:5 favorite in the Kentucky Derby, but faded down the homestretch after fighting Arcaro's restraint. He finished fourth behind longshot winner Iron Liege and future Hall of Famers Gallant Man (which was mistakenly pulled up at the 16th pole by jockey Bill Shoemaker) and Round Table. In the Preakness Stakes, Bold Ruler bounced back to win convincingly. In the Belmont Stakes, Bold Ruler finished third after he was forced through exceptionally fast early fractions by Gallant Man's rabbit. Gallant Man set a new stakes record that day that remained until Bold Ruler's son Secretariat broke it in 1973. He went on to win other important races, and his performances that year earned him the U.S. 3-Yr-Old Champion Male, Champion Sprinter, and Horse of the Year honors.

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[edit] A Champion Sire

After a short campaign at age four, Bold Ruler retired to stud at Claiborne Farm, where he sired 11 champions, including Hall of Famers Gamely and Secretariat. Bold Ruler is also the grandsire of Bold Forbes, Foolish Pleasure, Hall of Fame fillies Ruffian and Bold 'n Determined, as well as Spectacular Bid. He is great-grandsire of Seattle Slew. He was the Leading sire in North America for seven straight years between 1963 and 1969. Bold Ruler was the sire of two good sons with the same name, one in America, Bold Lad, who was the 1966 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and one in England, Bold Lad II, who was bred and raced by Gladys Phipps' sister, Beatrice.[2]

Bold Ruler's champions:

  1. Bold Bidder (b. 1962) - American Co-champion Older Male Horse (1966)
  2. Lamb Chop (b. 1963) - American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
  3. Bold Lad (b. 1962) - American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt
  4. Queen Empress (b. 1962) - American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly
  5. Gamely (b. 1964) - American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, American Champion Older Female Horse (1968–69), Hall of Fame (1980)
  6. Bold Lad II (b. 1964) - English Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1966), Irish Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1966)
  7. Successor (b. 1964) - American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt
  8. Queen of the Stage (b. 1965) - American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly
  9. Vitriolic (b. 1965) - American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt
  10. Secretariat (b. 1970) - 9th U.S. Triple Crown Champion American Horse of the Year (1972–73), 1972 Champion 2 Year old Colt, 1973 Champion 3 year old colt, 1973 American Turf Horse of the Year, Hall of Fame
  11. Wajima (b. 1972) - American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse

He was also the sire of a great colt by the name of Reviewer and which Reviewer sired the great Queen Of The Fillies and Filly Of The Century Ruffian out of Shenanigans.

Bold Ruler died from cancer at Claiborne Farm in July, 1971, and is interred there. In 1973, he was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Bold Ruler was listed at No.19 in the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 United States thoroughbred horse racing champions of the 20th century.

Pedigree of Bold Ruler
Sire
Nasrullah		 Nearco Pharos Phalaris
Scapa Flow
Nogara Havresac
Catnip
Mumtaz Begum Blenheim II Blandford
Malva
Mumtaz Mahal The Tetrarch
Lady Josephine
Dam
Miss Disco		 Discovery Display Fair Play
Cicuta
Ariadne Light Brigade
Adrienne
Outdone Pompey Sun Briar
Cleopatra
Sweep Out Sweep On
Dugout

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/roundtable.html
  2. ^ Wicks, B. M. (1973), The Australian Racehorse, Canberra: Libra Books, ISBN 090961900X .

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