Unbridled was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1990 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic.
15 Facts About Unbridled
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Unbridled retired with a career record of eight wins, six places, and six shows in 24 starts, and $4,489,475 in career earnings.
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Unbridled had a rivalry with Summer Squall over their three and four-year-old seasons.
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Unbridled was a bay horse with a broad white blaze bred in Florida by Tartan Stable.
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Unbridled was sired by Fappiano, by Mr Prospector, and his dam was Gana Facil, by Le Fabuleux.
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In 1989, at age two, Unbridled won the What A Pleasure Stakes and placed in all six of his starts.
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Unbridled finished second in the Preakness Stakes to Summer Squall, and finished fourth without Lasix in the Belmont Stakes to the Irish colt Go And Go.
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When Unbridled won the Derby, a network television camera in the Churchill Downs stands captured his trainer, Carl Nafzger, giving the horse's elderly owner, Frances Genter, a stretch call because of her poor vision.
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Unbridled lost four of six meetings with rival Summer Squall.
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Unbridled sired 292 runners that produced 183 winners out of 437 foals, earning over $31 million by 2000.
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Unbridled is the last Kentucky Derby winner to sire another Derby winner: Grindstone, that won the Kentucky Derby in 1996.
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Unbridled is the last stallion to have sired at least one winner in each of the American Triple Crown races : Grindstone, Kentucky Derby, 1996; Red Bullet, Preakness Stakes, 2000; and Empire Maker, Belmont Stakes, 2003.
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Unbridled was grandsire through Unbridled's Song of the filly Eight Belles, who finished second at the 2008 Kentucky Derby but broke both front pasterns at the finish and was euthanized on the track, and of the colt Arrogate, who won the 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic and placed first in the World's Best Racehorse Rankings for that year.
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In September 2001, Unbridled underwent two operations at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, near Lexington, Kentucky, to be treated for intestinal issues.
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On October 19,2001, at 6:00 PM, Unbridled was euthanized at the clinic after a severe bout of colic, with his condition being deemed inoperable.