Reviewer (horse)

Reviewer (April 30, 1966 – June 6, 1977) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly Ruffian.

Reviewer
SireBold Ruler
GrandsireNasrullah
DamBroadway
DamsireHasty Road
SexStallion
Foaled1966
CountryUnited States
ColorDark Bay
BreederOgden Phipps
OwnerOgden Phipps
TrainerEdward A. Neloy
Record13: 9-3-1
EarningsUS$247,223
Major wins
Sapling Stakes (1968)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1968)
Bay Shore Stakes (1969)
Swift Stakes (1969)
Roseben Handicap (1970)
Nassau County Handicap (1970)

Background

Foaled in Kentucky, the dark bay colt was owned and bred by Ogden Phipps. He was a son of Bold Ruler, an important Champion sire, and his damsire was Hasty Road, who won the 1954 Preakness Stakes.[1]

Racing career

Trained by Hall of Fame inductee Edward A. Neloy, in 1970 the then four-year-old Reviewer set a new Belmont Park track record of 1:46 4/5 for 1⅛ miles in winning the Nassau County Handicap.[2] He finished his racing career with a record of 13: 9-3-1, and he won $247,223.[3]

Stud record

Ruffian was foaled in Reviewer's first crop.[4] The filly was euthanized in 1975 following surgery to repair a broken leg sustained in a race. Reviewer himself broke three legs during his career before being retired to stud; he suffered a fourth broken leg in a paddock accident at Claiborne Farm and was subsequently euthanized. His line was known as "soft- boned runners". Shenanigans, Ruffian's mother, was euthanized on May 21, 1977, when she broke two legs after waking from an intestinal surgery. Among his other progeny, Reviewer sired the 1976 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Revidere and the good runner Drama Critic (b. 1974).

References
  1. "Preakness won by Hasty Road". Eugene Register-Guard. May 23, 1954. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  2. "Monday's Winners". Dayton Daily News. 1970-06-23. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  3. "Reviewer". Equibase Co., LLC. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  4. Avalyn Hunter. "Ruffian (horse)". American Classic Pedigrees. Retrieved 31 August 2016.

Pedigree
Pedigree of Reviewer, bay stallion, 1966
Sire
Bold Ruler		 Nasrullah Nearco Pharos
Nogara
Mumtaz Begum Blenheim
Mumtaz Mahal
Miss Disco Discovery Display
Ariadne
Outdone Pompey
Sweep Out
Dam
Broadway		 Hasty Road Roman Sir Gallahad
Buckup
Traffic Court Discovery
Traffic
Flitabout Challedon Challenger
Laura Gal
Bird Flower Blue Larkspur
La Mome (family: 5-c)
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