QUARTER HORSES #QuarterHorses
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Color: ch
(CAN)
5-2-1-0, $6,215. Retired due to injuries and an accident. Inducted into Canadian Hall of Fame in 1989 and was Canada’s leading sire for thirteen years. Younger full brother to Viceregal (Canadian Horse of the year as a 2 year old in 1968). Died 1995.
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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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