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Assagai (horse)

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Dam
  
Primary

Foaled
  
1963

Colour
  
Dark Bay

Species
  
Equus caballus

Sex
  
Stallion

Grandsire
  
Determine

Damsire
  
Petition

Country
  
Breeder
  
Robin F. Scully

Trainer
  
Earnings
  
344,921 USD

Assagai (1963–1986) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Background

Assagai was a bay horse bred in Kentucky, he was sired by Warfare and out of the mare, Primary. Purchased by the international business tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., he was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, MacKenzie Miller.

Racing career

At age three, Assagai was the top turf horse in the U.S. whose multiple Grade I wins in 1966 resulted in him being voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse.

Sent back to the track at age four, Assagai's most important win of 1967 came in the Long Island Handicap. He also finished second to Poker in the 1967 Bowling Green Handicap but ahead of the future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion, Buckpasser.

Stud record

Retired to stud duty, Assagai met with some success. His son Big Whippendeal won the G1 Century Handicap at Hollywood Park and another of his colts, Almost Grown, won the Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap at Hawthorne Race Course near Chicago.

In 1986, at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, Louisiana, the twenty-three-year-old Assagai was humanely euthanized due to laminitis.

References

Assagai (horse) Wikipedia


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