Deputy Minister (horse)
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| Deputy Minister | ||
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| Sire: | Vice regent | |
| 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 |
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| Trainer: | John Tammaro | |
| Record: | 22: 12-2-2 | |
| Earnings: | : $606,964 | |
| Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | ||
| Major Racing Wins | ||
| Youthful Stakes (1981) Laurel Futurity (1981) 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) |
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| Honours | ||
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1988) Leading U.S. Sire (1997 & 1998) Deputy Minister Handicap at Gulfstream Park |
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Infobox last updated on: October 6, 2006. |
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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 that 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.
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