Bold Reasoning

Bold Reasoning
SireBoldnesian
GrandsireBold Ruler
DamReason To Earn
DamsireHail To Reason
SexStallion
Foaled1968
CountryUnited States
ColourBrown
BreederLeon Savage
OwnerKosgrove Stable
TrainerNick Gonzales
Record12: 8-2-0
Earnings$189,564
Major wins
Jersey Derby (1971)
Withers Stakes (1971)

Bold Reasoning (April 29, 1968 – April 24, 1975) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. He is best known as being the sire of the 1977 Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew.

Background

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Bold Reasoning was foaled in Florida. He was out of the Hail To Reason mare Reason To Earn, by the Santa Anita Derby winner Boldnesian, a son of Bold Ruler.

Racing career

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Bold Reasoning recorded his most important successes as a three-year-old in 1971, winning the Jersey Derby and the Withers Stakes. He set a new track record at Belmont Park for six furlongs as a four-year-old in 1972.

Stud record

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Upon retirement, Bold Reasoning only produced three crops of foals at Claiborne Farm before his death on April 24, 1975, due to a breeding shed accident in which he cracked his pelvis. He had to be euthanized after the injury caused severe colic.[1] He sired Seattle Slew in his first crop of foals and the top-rated French two-year-old Super Concorde in his second.

References

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  1. ^ Timeform staff (1978). Racehorses of 1977. Timeform. ISBN 0-900599-25-1.