Bold Ruler - Stud Record

Stud Record

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.

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 (IRE) (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.

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