DEPUTY MINISTER ♘ 1979 ♞ ✺ © BAY ✺CANADA ✺ &Pura Sangre ♂

 

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Color: b

(CAN)

22-12-2-2, $696,964.

Won: Laurel Futurity(G1), Young America S.(G1), Victoria S., Youthful S., Clarendon S., Colin S., Bull Page S., Tom Fool S.(G2), Donn H.(G2), Gulfstream Sprint Championship

2nd: Meadowlands Cup(G1), Stuyvesant H.(G2)

3rd: Vosburgh S.(G1)

won debut, last raced 11/17/1983 Meadowlands

1981 Canadian Horse of the Year

Champion 2yo colt Canada & USA

Breeder: Centurion Farms (ON)

foaled May 17, 1979

Entered stud in 1984 at Windfields, MD

in 1989 at Brookdale Farm

died Sept. 10, 2004 from heart failure after receiving treatments for cancer that was blocking his breathing. Buried in the equine cemetery at Brookdale.

Photo and info available at http://www.windfields.com/deputy_minister.html

At the time of his death, his stud fee was $100,000. In 1995 he was the #2 ranking juvenile sire.

sire of champions Awesome Again, Dehere, Touch Gold, Open Mind

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