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Master Derby Sire Dust Commander Grandsire Bold Commander Dam Madam Jerry Damsire Royal Coinage Sex Stallion Foaled 1972 Country United States Colour Chestnut Breeder Robert E. Lehmann Owner Golden Chance Farm Trainer William E. "Smiley" Adams Record 33: 16-8-4 Earnings $698,625 Major wins Kindergarten Stakes (1974)
American Classic Race wins:
Dragoon Stakes (1974)
Louisiana Derby Trial Stakes (1975)
Louisiana Derby (1975)
Lexington Stakes (1975)
Blue Grass Stakes (1975)
New Orleans Handicap (1976)
Louisiana Handicap (1976)
Oaklawn Handicap (1976)
Preakness Stakes (1975)Awards Leading broodmare sire in Britain & Ireland (1991) Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Master Derby (1972–1999) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1975 Preakness Stakes.
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Background
He was bred by Robert E. Lehmann at his Golden Chance Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Master Derby was out of the mare Madam Jerry, and sired by Lehmann's 1970 Kentucky Derby winner, Dust Commander.
Racing career
1974: Two-year-ols season
Conditioned for racing by trainer Smiley Adams, at age two Master Derby made twelve starts, finishing either first or second in all of them. His best stakes race results were wins in the Grade III Kindergarten Stakes sprint race and a division of the Grade III Dragoon Stakes. He also earned a second-place finish in the important 1974 Breeders' Futurity Stakes and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes.
1975: Three-year-old season
Racing as a three-year-old, Master Derby began his season with two straight losses in six-furlong sprints but then won the much longer 1 1/16 miles Louisiana Derby Trial Stakes and the 1⅛ miles Louisiana Derby. Aimed for the Kentucky Derby, from his base in Louisiana his handlers shipped him to Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky, where jockey Darrel McHargue rode him to victory in the Lexington Stakes and the Blue Grass Stakes.
With McHargue as his rider in the 1975 U.S. Triple Crown races, Master Derby ran fourth in the Kentucky Derby to the heavily-favored winner Foolish Pleasure, then won the Preakness Stakes before finishing third in the Belmont Stakes to winner Avatar.
1976: Four-year-old season
At age four, Master Derby won the 1976 New Orleans, Louisiana, and Oaklawn Handicaps, and ran second in the Metropolitan Handicap to Hall of Fame inductee Forego.
Stud record
Retired to stud duty, Master Derby met with modest success as a sire. The most notable of his progeny in racing was the Grade I winner Uptown Swell, who earned just under $1 million for owner Virginia Kraft Payson. However, his daughter Doff The Derby produced Generous, whose 1991 Group One victories in England and Ireland included the Epsom and Irish Derbys and whose earnings helped make Master Derby the 1991 Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland.
In January 1999, due to the infirmities of old age, the twenty-seven-year-old Master Derby was humanely euthanized at Notjustanother Farm in Chino, California.
References
- Master Derby's pedigree and partial racing stats
- Master Derby's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves
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- British Champion Thoroughbred broodmare sires
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