Fatal Bullet
| Fatal Bullet | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Red Bullet |
| Grandsire | Unbridled |
| Dam | Sararegal |
| Damsire | Regal Classic |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 2005 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Adena Springs |
| Owner | Bear Stables Ltd. |
| Trainer | Reade Baker |
| Record | 39: 12-5-8 |
| Earnings | $1,377,256 |
| Major wins | |
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Bold Venture Stakes (2008, 2009) Tom Ridge Labor Day Stakes (2008) Kentucky Cup Sprint Stakes (2008) Hendrie Stakes (2008) (record holder) Phoenix Stakes (2009) |
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| Awards | |
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Canadian Champion Sprinter (2008) Canadian Horse of the Year (2008) |
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Fatal Bullet (foaled February 12, 2005 in Florida) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. A five-time stakes winner, he was crowned 2008 Canadian Horse of the Year and Champion Sprinter.
Bred in Florida by premier breeding farm Adena Springs, Fatal Bullet was sired by Red Bullet, the winner of the 2000 Preakness Stakes. The sire of other stakes horses such as Royal Currier, Cool Bullet, and Red Lead, his progeny have collectively earned more than $9.1 million. Fatal Bullet is out of the Regal Classic mare Sararegal, who has also produced stakes winning filly Millennia.
Fatal Bullet was purchased by Danny Dion's Bear Racing Stables for $27,000 at Adena Springs's 2007 Two-Year-Olds in Training sale.
During his racing career, Fatal Bullet was trained by Reade Bake, a trainer who has also trained stakes winners Breaking Lucky, Bear Now, and Solid Appeal.
Fatal Bullet ran his first six starts at Woodbine, winning his debut maiden and three allowances. He made his graded stakes debut in his third start, the 2007 Summer Stakes, finishing ninth.
Fatal Bullet's first start outside of Canada came in the Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont Park in July of 2008. He finished eighth in the race.
The gelding's first stakes win came next in the listed Bold Venture Stakes, where he set a new track record for 6.5 furlongs. Following his first big win were two more- the Tom Ridge Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and the Gr.III Kentucky Cup Sprint Stakes, a race in which he set another track record of 6.5 furlongs. In his final start of 2008, Fatal Bullet contested the 2008 Gr.I Breeders' Cup Sprint at Oak Tree. Fatal Bullet finished a valiant second to champion Midnight Lute, who came back from injury to win the race for the second time, in record time.
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