Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Our Boots (foaled 1938) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He won a Daily Racing Form poll to voted the 1940 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. The rival Turf & Sports Digest poll was topped by Whirlaway. He was sired by Bull Dog, the 1943 Leading sire in North America, and out of the English-born mare, Maid of Arches.Our Boots was owned and raced by the of Woodvale Farm of Royce G. Martin who bought him at the Saratoga Sales for a mere $3,500. He was trained by Steve Judge. The colt's most important wins of his two-year-old Championship season came in the Futurity Trial and the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park in which he defeated future U.S. Triple Crown winner and Hall of Fame inductee, Whirlaway.A winterbook favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Our Boots won the Blue Grass Stakes, then finished eighth in the Derby and third in the Preakness Stakes.As a sire, Our Boots produced some offspring that met with modest racing success.. }
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- Our_Boots abstract "Our Boots (foaled 1938) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He won a Daily Racing Form poll to voted the 1940 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. The rival Turf & Sports Digest poll was topped by Whirlaway. He was sired by Bull Dog, the 1943 Leading sire in North America, and out of the English-born mare, Maid of Arches.Our Boots was owned and raced by the of Woodvale Farm of Royce G. Martin who bought him at the Saratoga Sales for a mere $3,500. He was trained by Steve Judge. The colt's most important wins of his two-year-old Championship season came in the Futurity Trial and the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park in which he defeated future U.S. Triple Crown winner and Hall of Fame inductee, Whirlaway.A winterbook favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Our Boots won the Blue Grass Stakes, then finished eighth in the Derby and third in the Preakness Stakes.As a sire, Our Boots produced some offspring that met with modest racing success.".