Indian Charlie

Indian Charlie (March 27, 1995 – 2011) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1998 Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, equaling the stakes record time,^[1] but is best known as an important sire of Champions.

Racing career

Indian Charlie won his first four races and started at odds of 5/2 for the Kentucky Derby, in which he finished third to Real Quiet. He was rested after the Derby and missed the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. He was being prepared for a return to racing in the Haskell Invitational in August when he pulled a suspensory ligament during training at Del Mar Racetrack and was retired from racing.^[2]

Stud record

Indian Charlie stood at Airdrie Stud near Midway, Kentucky where his stud fee for 2011 was set at $70,000.^[3] To date he has sired four champions:

• Fleet Indian, American Champion Older Female Horse (2006) multiple Grade 1 winner of $1.7 million
• Indian Blessing, won 2007 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (2007), American Champion Female Sprint Horse (2008), earned $2,995,420
• Indian Apple Is, 2010 Canadian Champion Female Sprint Horse
• Uncle Mo, won 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt

Among his other notable progeny, Indian Charlie is the sire of multiple stakes winners Conveyance, Bwana Charlie, Indian Firewater, Iindyanne, Mr. Nightlinger, My Pal Charlie, Pampered Princess, Roxy Gap, Two Trail Sioux, Zada Belle, as well as 2011 Robert B. Lewis Stakes winner Anthony's Cross and Jerome Stakes winner Adios Charlie. ^[4]

Indian Charlie was euthanized at Airdrie Stud at approximately 9:30 a.m. EST on December 15, 2011. The sixteen-year-old had been battling cancer.^[5]

Pedigree

References

• Indian Charlie's pedigree and partial racing stats