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Right Boy

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Sire
  
Impeccable

Dam
  
Happy Ogan

Foaled
  
1954

Died
  
1977

Parents
  
Impeccable

Earnings
  
53,212 USD

Grandsire
  
His Highness

Damsire
  
Ballyogan

Country
  
Ireland

Trainer
  
Bill Dutton

Sex
  
Colt

Color
  
Gray

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Right Boy (1954–1977) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire

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Background

Right Boy cost 575 guineas as a yearling. He was the second top sprinter of the 1950s to be trained in Yorkshire by Bill Dutton - the first was Pappa Fourway, who cost even less. When Dutton died in 1958, the horse was taken over by his late trainer's son-in-law Pat Rohan.

Racing career

As a two-year-old won his first four races against moderate opposition but was then unplaced behind Eudaemon in the Gimcrack Stakes. As a three-year-old he developed into a top-class sprinter, winning the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and finishing second in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York.

In 1958 he won six consecutive races including the Cork and Orrery Stakes, July Cup, King George Stakes and Nunthorpe Stakes.

In his final season, Right Boy recorded repeat wins in the Cork & Orrery Stakes, July Cup, King George Stakes and Nunthorpe Stakes. He ended his racing career by finishing second, when attempting to concede thirty-two pounds to the winner in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster.

Stud record

At stud, the only notable winners he produced by the time he was put down in 1977 were Reet Lass, who won the Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood, and Village Boy, who landed the Richmond Stakes at the same course.

References

Right Boy Wikipedia