Silent Screen

Silent Screen
Sire Prince John
Grandsire Princequillo
Dam Prayer Bell
Damsire Better Self
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1967
Country United States
Colour Chestnut
Breeder D.R. Vespo & A. Noviello
Owner Elberon Farm
Trainer J. Bowes Bond
Record 18: 7-2-4
Earnings US$514,388
Major wins
Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes (1969)
Champagne Stakes (1969)
Cowdin Stakes (1969)
Bahamas Stakes (1970)
Saranac Handicap (1970)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1969)
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)

Silent Screen (1967-1993) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained by J. Bowes Bond for owners Sonny and Leah Ray Werbin who raced under the nom de course, Elberon Farm.

Silent Screen was the 1969 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. At age three in 1970, he won the Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah Park Race Track and the Saranac Handicap at Saratoga Race Course. He ran second to winner Personality in the Wood Memorial Stakes and third to him in the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.

At stud, Silent Screen was the sire of a number of stakes winners. He died at Gainesway Farm, in Lexington, Kentucky on March 11, 1993 at age twenty-six.[1]

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