Red Bullet

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Red Bullet


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sire = Unbridled
grandsire = Fappiano
dam = Cargo
damsire = Caro
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1997
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Chestnut
breeder = Adena Springs
owner = Stronach Stables
trainer = Joe Orseno
record = 12: 6-2-2
earnings = $1,161,920
race = Gotham Stakes (2000)

American Classic Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (2000)
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honours =
updated= August 30, 2007

Red Bullet (foaled 1997 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2000 Preakness Stakes. Bred and raced by auto parts magnate Frank Stronach, he was sired by Unbridled, the 1990 American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse and winner of that year's Breeders' Cup Classic. Out of the mare Cargo, who was a daughter of French multiple Grade 1 winner, Caro, Red Bullet was conditioned by Joe Orseno.

Red Bullet did not race at age two. Sent to the track at age three in 2000, he started six times, winning his first three starts. He then ran second to Fusaichi Pegasus in the 2000 Wood Memorial Stakes after which his handlers felt it was not in the colt's best interest to run in the Kentucky Derby. Instead, they prepared him for the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, which he won by 3¾ lengths over Derby winner, Fusaichi Pegasus. Best at classic distances up to a 1¼ miles, Red Bullet's handlers did not enter him in the third leg of the Triple Crown, the 1½ mile Belmont Stakes.

Racing as a four-year-old, Red Bullet won an allowance race out of his three starts and at age five, raced another three times with his best result a win in the Foggy Road Stakes and a second place finish behind Sir Bear in the 2002 Skip Away Handicap.

Retired at the end of the 2002 racing season, Red Bullet began stud duty the following year at his owner's Adena Springs South in Williston, Florida.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/red+bullet Red Bullet's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E1DC1231F93BA25757C0A9669C8B63 April 18, 2000 "New York Times" article titled "Red Bullet to Skip Derby for Preakness"]
* [http://adenastallions.com/stallions/stallion.aspx?id=Red_Bullet Red Bullet at Adena Springs]