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 at Hialeah Park, which restricted his racing that y...
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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 at Hialeah Park, which restricted his racing that year.
After a reasonably good 1983 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 Fred Seitz's 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...
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