Bold 'n Determined

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Bold ‘n Determined


caption =
sire = Bold And Brave
grandsire = Bold Ruler
dam = Pidi
damsire = Determine
sex = Filly
foaled = 1977
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Dr. Gordon E. Layton
owner = Saron Stable
trainer = Neil D. Drysdale
record = 20: 16–2-0
earnings= $949,599
race = Oak Leaf Stakes (1979)
Fantasy Stakes (1980)
Spinster Stakes (1980)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1980)
Santa Susana Stakes (1980)
Kentucky Oaks (1980)
Acorn Stakes (1980)
Maskette Stakes (1980)
Pasadena Stakes (1980)
Apple Blossom Handicap (1981)
Bewitch Stakes (1981)
awards=
honours = U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1997)
updated= February 7, 2008

Bold 'n Determined (1977-1997), was an American Thoroughbred race horse born and bred in Kentucky. Her dam was the unraced mare, Pidi, by Determine. Determine won the 1954 Kentucky Derby. Her sire was Bold And Brave by the great Bold Ruler. In her breeding she is inbred 4x4 to the great English stallion Pharos.

Owned by Saron Stable, trained by Neil Drysdale, Bold ‘n Determined won her first four races at two, including the Oak Leaf Stakes.

Out of her twenty starts, she won 16 times and placed twice, six of her wins Grade I stakes events. Ridden most by the Hall of Fame jockey, Eddie Delahoussaye, Bold ‘n Determined competed on both coasts, winning virtually all of her races. In 1980, at the age of three, she took the Acorn Stakes and the Coaching Club American Oaks which are two of the three races comprising the New York Filly Triple Crown. She also won the equivalent of the Kentucky Derby for females, the Kentucky Oaks.

That year, a filly won the Kentucky Derby, the great Genuine Risk...only the second member of her sex to do so since Regret had won it in 1905. She also placed in the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. But in the Maskette Stakes (now called the Go For Wand Handicap), Bold ‘n Determined beat Genuine Risk by a nose. In that race, she also beat the Hall of Fame filly, Davona Dale, the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1979.

At four, Bold 'n Determined took the Bewitch Stakes and the Apple Blossom Handicap, spotting her rivals 4 to 13 pounds, but began to experience problems with her ankles. The decision was made to retire her from racing before anything worse could happen.

In 1980, she was runner-up to Genuine Risk in the Eclipse Awards for American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. In 1997, the year of her death, she was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Bold ‘n Determined spent her broodmare career at Gainsborough Farm in Kentucky. On July 1, 1997, she was quietly put to sleep due to the complications of “founder” or laminitis.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/bold+n+determined Bold ‘n Determined’ pedigree, stats, and photo]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=20 Bold ‘n Determined in the Hall of Fame, with video of her win in the Maskette]