Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Deputy Minister (1979–2004) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred horse racing Champion. At age two, he won eight out of his nine starts and was voted the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse Award winner as North American Champion 2-Yr-Old, and was also voted Canada's Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. Early in his 1982 campaign, Deputy Minister wrenched an ankle while competing in the Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah Park, which restricted his racing that year.After a good 1983 season in which he won the Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship, Donn Handicap and Tom Fool Handicap, Deputy Minister was retired to stand at stud at the Maryland branch of Windfields Farm, where he sired future U.S. Hall of Famer Go for Wand. By 1989, his success as a sire led to his being moved to Fred Seitz's Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, where he spent the rest of his life. A career sire of 80 Graded stakes race winners, Deputy Minister was also the damsire of 108 stakes winners.In 1988, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.Deputy Minister died of a malignant tumor at the Ohio State University veterinary hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and was buried at Brookdale Farm.. }
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- Deputy_Minister_(horse) abstract "Deputy Minister (1979–2004) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred horse racing Champion. At age two, he won eight out of his nine starts and was voted the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse Award winner as North American Champion 2-Yr-Old, and was also voted Canada's Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. Early in his 1982 campaign, Deputy Minister wrenched an ankle while competing in the Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah Park, which restricted his racing that year.After a good 1983 season in which he won the Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship, Donn Handicap and Tom Fool Handicap, Deputy Minister was retired to stand at stud at the Maryland branch of Windfields Farm, where he sired future U.S. Hall of Famer Go for Wand. By 1989, his success as a sire led to his being moved to Fred Seitz's Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, where he spent the rest of his life. A career sire of 80 Graded stakes race winners, Deputy Minister was also the damsire of 108 stakes winners.In 1988, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.Deputy Minister died of a malignant tumor at the Ohio State University veterinary hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and was buried at Brookdale Farm.".