Bold Bidder

Bold Bidder
Sire	Bold Ruler
Grandsire	Nasrullah
Dam	High Bid
Damsire	To Market
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1962
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Wheatley Stable
Owner	1) Wheatley Stable 2) August Paul & Randy Sechrest 3) Paul Falkenstein 4) John R. Gaines (Lesee)
Trainer	Woody Stephens Randy Sechrest
Record	33: 13-2-5
Earnings	US$478,021
Major wins
Benjamin Franklin Handicap (1965) Hawthorne Derby (1965) Jerome Handicap (1965) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1966) Monmouth Handicap (1966) Strub Stakes (1966) Washington Park Handicap (1966 )
Awards
TRA Champion Handicap Male Horse (1966)
Honours
Bold Bidder Drive, Lexington, Kentucky

Bold Bidder (1962–1982) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Bred by the Wheatley Stable partnership of Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills, Bold Bidder was sired by their great stallion Bold Ruler, an eight-time Leading sire in North America and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. He was out of the Wheatley mare High Bid. In 1952, her sire, To Market, set new track records in the Massachusetts Handicap, the Hawthorne Gold Cup and a six-furlong sprint at Santa Anita Park.

First trained by future Hall of Fame inductee Woody Stephens, Bold Bidder did not run in the Kentucky Derby. Instead, his Wheatley stablemate Bold Lad, the 1964 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and 1965 Derby Trial Stakes winner, was entered. Sent off as the betting favorite, Bold Lad finished tenth in an eleven-horse field. Neither horse ran in the Preakness Stakes, but Bold Bidder finished eighth in the Belmont Stakes. He was purchased by August Paul and trainer Randy Sechrest in 1965 and then sold to Paul Falkenstein who leased him for five years to John R. Gaines.