Bold Ruler - Preakness Stakes 1957

[TheMirrorpoet]

This video won't play for me. :(

[dressidge]

My horses great great grandsire :) what an amazing guy!

[711ATOM]

Bold Bidder, Bold Hour, Bold Lad, Boldnesian, Secretariat, Speedwell, Successor, Vitriolic, the very underrated Wajima, What a Pleasure, etc., etc., etc. (1957 Preakness - 1:56 1/5.

[Pari28]

I just love this horse!!!

-ASIDE from the fact that he is the sire of Secretariat.

What a horse- both of them, lol. I wish we still had both of them around!

[TheresNoEndings]

Father of Ruffian and Secretariat

[bbmtge]

@TheresNoEndings 

[bbmtge]

@TheresNoEndings Dad of Bold Bidder who sired Spec Bid and a few others.

[shooter297]

@TheresNoEndings Bold Ruler is not the sire of Ruffian. His son, Reviewer is. Bold Ruler is her Grandsire.

[lpvcrcd]

Thanks for the vdeo Why is the race about 2 minutes 35 seconds long I thought they seemed to be running forever Isn't this race 1 3/16 of a mile and normally they go 1:55 to 1:57 Didn't anybody notice how the video and race starts at 0.00 and ends with Bold Ruler'' jockey pulling up at about 2:35 Strange Am I mising something here?

[casanovaforeva22]

bold rule is in my horses bloodline at least twice he fathered secertariat and sugar plum time for my horse

[ivorysoap101]

My horse is related too!

[PokerStuffer]

father of SECRETARIAT

[TheresNoEndings]

@PokerStuffer

And Ruffian

[Juliaflo]

@PokerStuffer .......Foaled out of Somethingroyal (All one word, if you please.)

Happy Thanksgiving.

[ZipATizeMeCapn]

i have an appaloosa gelding who is related to him. bold ruler is his great great grandsire. i know its far back, but it shows in him!!! =] he also has man o war at least 3 times

[chakadoodledoo]

you know that means he is also partially related to secretariat?

[hunterjmpr113]

ahh omg! my horse is related to him!!! except i guess my horse didnt make a good racer so now he does hunters and equitation with me! :D

[Jamberine]

OMG!

my horse is related to him too!

and he also make a crap racer lol...

[hunterjmpr113]

yay! our horses are related!

[Jamberine]

omg...

i just realised that...

aah lol i can be such a tool lol!

[nuness20]

Thanks for presenting this race. Bold Ruler was a terrific racehorse and perhaps the greatest thoroughbred sire of all time.

[leelanau2004]

Amen!

Secretariat, Ruffian, Seattle Slew, Spectacular Bid all from the Nearco-Bold Ruler line

[jet7111]

That was an amazing blood line they put together when they help bring nearco's son over here.

[andywellman]

thats my horses great grandsire!!! my horse was shit on the race track though but he is doing well at dreaasage.

[UniversalJonas]

yeah. thats kind of weird, seeming as Bold Ruler was my horse's great great Grandsire, and he also sucked at racing ($207) and is in dressage.

[imsosexyahhh123]

hahaha my horse was shit on the track too. and hes her great great great grandsire!

[BE109]

People tend to forget just how good Bold Ruler was as a racehorse. He was probably a miler, but he had the class to win multiple times at 10 furlongs with well over 130lb on his back. As good as he was on the track, he was tremendous in the breeding shed.

[scrawneypaledude]

Awesome video qualtity! Why cant the videos I download on youtube from like, yesterday, be as good as one from 1957? The world may never know. Nice to finally see Secretariats papa in action. Thanks.

[tvnewsbadge]

MUCH better quality than any video I've seen on Secretariat.

I suspect it's because this race was shot on film (see the hair in the film gate at one point), and the later races look to me like they were shot on video cameras.

Sadly, in '73, video cameras and tape technology was in it's infancy.

[MelC54]

@tvnewsbadge It's superior Japenese technology.

[Dibsthe1]

Oh, okay then. Thanks. I still can't get over how clear these half-century old images are.

[Dibsthe1]

Is there no audio for this one? It's a great race and very clear video. It's a shame we can't hear the call.

[neojappy]

sorry, the original video doesn't have audio either.

[cf1970]

Aha! The legendary Bold Ruler! He was a terrific speed horse and an awesome sire as well. He sure rocked the breeding world when he sired SECRETARIAT, the best racehorse ever, in my humble opinion. Thanks for this, neojappy. Take care.