Bold Forbes

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Bold Forbes


caption = Bold Forbes
grandsire = Bold Ruler
sire = Irish Castle
dam = Comely Nell
damsire = Commodore
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1973
country = USA flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = Eaton Farms & Red Bull
owner =
trainer = Laz Barrera
record = 18: 13-1-4
earnings = $546,536
race = Clasico Dia de Los Padre (1975)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1975)
Tremont Stakes (1975)
Wood Memorial Stakes (1976)
Kentucky Derby (1976)
Belmont Stakes (1976)
Bay Shore Stakes (1976)
San Jacinto Stakes (1976)
Vosburgh Stakes (1976)
San Vicente Stakes (1976)
awards = Champion 2-year-old in Puerto Rico
U.S. Champion 3-Year-Old Male (1976)
honours =
updated= September 24, 2006

Bold Forbes (March 31, 1973 - August 9, 2000) was a thoroughbred racehorse.

Bold Forbes was a colt foaled in Kentucky who raced in Puerto Rico as a two-year-old where he was the 1975 champion. Sent to the United States, he was trained by Laz Barrera and won both the 1976 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes under the renowned Puerto Rican jockey Angel Cordero, Jr.

Bold Forbes arrived at the Kentucky Horse Park's Hall of Champions, located at Lexington, Kentucky on April 1991 and died August 9, 2000 at the age of 27. There is a memorial dedicated to the horse in the "Memorial of Champions" in the "Hall of Champions".

References

* [http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1976.html Bold Forbes's Kentucky Derby]
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/bold+forbes Bold Forbes's pedigree]
* [http://www.tbcprojects.com/career.php?search=3402 Bold Forbes's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves]

ee also

*List of famous Puerto Ricans