Deputy Minister (horse)
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| Deputy Minister | |
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| Sire | Vice Regent |
| Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
| Dam | Mint Copy |
| Damsire | Bunty's Flight |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1979 |
| Country | Canada  |
| Colour | Dark Bay |
| Breeder | Centurion Farm |
| Owner | Centurion Stables Kinghaven Farms Due Process Stable |
| Trainer | Bill Marko (1981) John J. Tammaro, Jr. (1982) |
| Record | 22: 12-2-2 |
| Earnings | : $606,964 |
| Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours | |
| Major Racing Wins | |
| Colin Stakes (1981) Clarendon Stakes (1981) Youthful Stakes (1981) Laurel Futurity (1981) Young America Stakes (1981) Tom Fool Handicap (1983) Donn Handicap (1983) |
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| Racing Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1981) Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1981) Canadian Horse of the Year (1981) Leading sire in North America (1997, 1998) Leading broodmare sire in North America (2007) |
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| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1988) Deputy Minister Handicap at Gulfstream Park Deputy Minister Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack |
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| Infobox last updated on: December 1, 2006. | |
Deputy Minister (1979-2004) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred horse racing Champion. At age two, he won eight out the nine races entered, and was voted the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse Award winner as North American Champion 2-Yr-Old, and was also voted Canada's Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. Early in his 1982 campaign, Deputy Minister wrenched an ankle while competing in the Bahamas Stakes, which restricted his racing that year.
After a reasonably good 1984 season, Deputy Minister was retired to stand at stud at the Maryland branch of Windfields Farm where he sired future U.S. Hall of Famer, Go for Wand. By 1989 his success as a sire had led to his being moved to Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Kentucky where he spent the rest of his life. A career sire of 80 Graded stakes race winners, Deputy Minister was also the damsire of 108 stakes winners.
In 1988, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Deputy Minister died of a malignant tumor at the Ohio State University veterinary hospital in Columbus, Ohio and was buried at Brookdale Farm.
[edit] Selected progeny
Sire of:
- Open Mind, won Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1988)
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (1989) - Go For Wand : U.S. Champion Filly (1989, 1990), U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1996)
- Dehere : U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old-Colt (1993)
- Better Than Honour : dam of Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags To Riches, Casino Drive
- Awesome Again : Queen's Plate (1997), Breeders' Cup Classic (1998)
- Touch Gold : Haskell Invitational Handicap (1997), Belmont Stakes (1997)
- Deputy Commander : Travers Stakes (1997), Super Derby (1997)
- Keeper Hill : Las Virgenes Stakes (1998), Kentucky Oaks (1998)
Grandsire of :
- Silverbulletday : U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly of 1998 and the U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly of 1999. Multiple G1 race winner including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Kentucky Oaks
- Ghostzapper : U.S. Horse of the Year (2004), World's Top Ranked Horse (2004)
- Round Pond : Breeders' Cup Distaff (2006)
- Deputy Glitters : Ohio Derby (2006), Tampa Bay Derby (2006)
Damsire of :
- Sarava : winner of the Belmont Stakes (2002)
- Halfbridled : Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (2003), U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (2003)
- Kane Hekili, multi-millionaire colt, won four Grade 1 races in Japan including the 2005 Japan Cup Dirt
- Bob and John : Wood Memorial Stakes (2006)
- Jazil : Belmont Stakes (2006)
- Curlin : 2007 American Horse of the Year
- Rags to Riches : Kentucky Oaks (2007), Belmont Stakes (2007), American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (2007)
- Casino Drive : Peter Pan Stakes (2008)
[edit] References
- ESPN obituary profile
- Deputy Minister at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
- Deputy Minister's pedigree and racing stats
