| Bold Ruler |
Upload / Commons Upload | | Sire: | Nasrullah | | Grandsire: | Nearco | | Dam: | Miss Disco | | Damsire: | Discovery | | Sex: | Stallion | | Foaled: | 1954 | | Country: | USA
 | | Colour: | Brown | | Breeder: | Wheatley Stable | | Owner: | Wheatley Stable. Racing silks: Yellow, purple sleeves and cap. | | Trainer: | Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons | | Record: | 33:23-4-2 | | Earnings: | $764,204 | | Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | | Major Racing Wins | Futurity Stakes (1956)
Flamingo Stakes (1957)
Wood Memorial (1957)
Preakness Stakes (1957)
Stymie Handicap (1958)
Carter Handicap (1958)
Suburban Handicap (1958)
Toboggan Handicap (1958) | | Racing 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 Belmont Park | | Infobox last updated on: February 7, 2007. Image File history File links Photo_needed. ...
Nasrullah (1940-1959) was a Brittish thoroughbred racehorse, and sire of 15 champions. ...
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A stallion. ...
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Wheatley Stable was a Thoroughbred horse racing partnership formed by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills. ...
James Edward (Sunny Jim) Fitzsimmons (July 23, 1874 – March 11, 1966) was a thoroughbred racehorse trainer. ...
The Futurity Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. ...
The Flamingo Stakes was a Grade III stakes race for three-year-old thorough race horses run at the Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida over a distance of 1 1/16 miles. ...
The Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York is an American horse race first run in 1925. ...
The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I stakes race 1 3/16 mile (1. ...
The Stymie Handicap is an ungraded dirt race for Thoroughbred horses run at Aqueduct Racetrack every year in March, the last month of winter. ...
The Carter Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race three-year-olds and up, run at a distance of 7 furlongs at Aqueduct Racetrack. ...
The Suburban Handicap is a Grade I stakes race for Thoroughbred horses aged three and older. ...
The Toboggan Handicap is a Thoroughbred race run at Aqueduct Race Track each year for three-year-old horses and up. ...
The Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Yr-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. ...
The list below shows the leading sire of racehorses in North America for each year since 1830. ...
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York in Nassau County on Long Island (just outside of New York City). ...
| Bold Ruler (1954-1971) was an American thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
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Bred by the Wheatley Stable of Gladys Mills Phipps, Bold Ruler was born at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky to Nasrullah and Miss Disco. Trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons and 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 and finished 4th to longshot winner Iron Liege. In the Preakness Stakes, Bold Ruler bounced back to win, then finished 3rd in the Belmont. He went on to win other important races and his performances that year earned him the Eclipse Award as 1957 Champion 3-Year-Old, Champion Sprinter, and Horse of the Year honors. Wheatley Stable was a Thoroughbred horse racing partnership formed by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills. ...
Gladys Livingston Mills Phipps (1883-1970), was an United States socialite, sportsperson, and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who began the Phipps family dynasty in American horse racing. ...
Claiborne Farm is located in Paris, Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous thoroughbred horse farms in the state and in the nation. ...
Paris is a city that was settled in 1775 and is in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 113 miles (182 km) east of Louisville Ky. ...
Nasrullah (1940-1959) was a Brittish thoroughbred racehorse, and sire of 15 champions. ...
James Edward (Sunny Jim) Fitzsimmons (July 23, 1874 – March 11, 1966) was a thoroughbred racehorse trainer. ...
Eddie Arcaro (February 19, 1916 - November 4, 1997) was born George Edward Arcaro in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. ...
The Flamingo Stakes was a Grade III stakes race for three-year-old thorough race horses run at the Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida over a distance of 1 1/16 miles. ...
The Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York is an American horse race first run in 1925. ...
The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ...
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Iron Liege (1954-1972) was an American thoroughbred race horse. ...
The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I stakes race 1 3/16 mile (1. ...
The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ...
The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ...
The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...
After a short campaign at age four, Bold Ruler retired to stud at Claiborne Farm where he sired eleven champions including Hall of Famers Gamely and Secretariat, plus he was the grandsire of Bold Forbes, Hall of Fame filly Ruffian and Spectacular Bid and great-grandsire of Seattle Slew. He was the Leading sire in North America for seven straight years between 1963 and 1969. Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American thoroughbred racehorse considered by many to be the greatest of all time. ...
Bold Forbes foaled March 31, 1973 and died August 9, 2000. ...
Ruffian (April 17, 1972-July 7, 1975) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse, considered by many to be the greatest female racehorse of all time. ...
Spectacular Bid (February 17, 1976 — June 9, 2003) was an American thoroughbred race horse. ...
Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse who won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, only the tenth horse, among eleven, to accomplish the feat. ...
The list below shows the leading sire of racehorses in North America for each year since 1830. ...
He died at Claiborne Farm in 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. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. ...
In 1999, The Blood-Horse magazine compiled a list of what its staff members considered to be the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century who had competed in the United States. ...
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