Print size 17″ X 22″, Image Size 11″ X 12″

This print has been in storage since 1967 and has slight discolorations around the print border which does not distract from the beauty of the print and would be easily covered up when matted and framed.

A leading two-year-old and a classic winner at three, Bold Ruler must be ranked as one of the ablest runners of his equine generation. At times he has been compared not unfavorably with his great paternal half-brother Nashua. During a juvenile career interrupted by injuries, Bold Ruler was beaten but once in his first eight starts, including the Youthful and Juvenile Stakes, and Belmont Futurity. Although he lost all chance when he ran up on another horse’s heels in the Garden State Stakes and again when he reared at the start of the Remsen, he was still ranked second, one pound below the top, on the Experimental Free Handicap.

In his first nine appearances at three, he won the Bahamas Handicap, Flamingo, Wood Memorial and Preakness Stakes, all save the latter in track-record times; placed in the Everglades Stakes and Florida Derby; showed in “Gallant Man’s Belmont Stakes”; and ran fourth in Iron Liege’s Kentucky Derby. The Wheatley Stable colt came back from the Belmont with a small splint, and was kept out of action for three months by a series of other mystifying ailments.

He returned to action with a six-length victory in the Jerome Mile. Third to the crack older handicapper Dedicate and *Gallant Man in the rich Woodward Stakes, Bold Ruler then notched two straight impressive scores over his seniors. In the Vosburgh Handicap he prevailed by nine lengths while setting a new seven-furlong Belmont Park record of 1:21 2/5 on a sloppy track. His 2 ½-panel decision in the Queens County brought his total income to $481,875. He had not been worse than fourth in 13 starts as a three-year-old through Oct. 19, 1957.

Bold Ruler (April 6, 1954 – July 11, 1971) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who won the 1957 Preakness Stakes. He was the sire of two other Hall of Famers, Secretariat and Gamely.