Raise a Native
| Raise a Native | |
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Raise A Native at Spendhrtift Farm in 1981
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| Sire | Native Dancer |
| Grandsire | Polynesian |
| Dam | Raise You |
| Damsire | Case Ace |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | April 18, 1961 |
| Died | July 28, 1988 (aged 27) |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Happy Hill Farm |
| Owner | Mrs. E. H. Augustu Louis Wolfson |
| Trainer | Burley Parke |
| Record | 4: 4–0–0 |
| Earnings | $45,955 |
| Major wins | |
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Great American Stakes (1963) Belmont Juvenile (1963) |
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| Awards | |
| TSD American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1963) | |
| Last updated on July 17, 2007 | |
Raise a Native (April 18, 1961 – July 28, 1988) was an undefeated Thoroughbred racehorse that was named 1963 champion two-year-old colt in the Turf and Sport Digest poll and was the highest rated juvenile in the Experimental Free Handicap. He sired 74 stakes winners, including Majestic Prince and Alydar. In its 1988 obituary for the horse, The New York Times called him "the most influential sire of American Thoroughbred stallions over the last 20 years".
Raise a Native was bred by Happy Hill Farm, owned by Cortright Wetherill (1923–1988) and his wife Ella Anne Widener (1928–1986), whose Widener family of Philadelphia is one of the most prominent in American Thoroughbred racing history. Raise a Native was by the 1954 United States Horse of the Year Native Dancer, who was ranked #7 by the Blood-Horse magazine listing of the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century. His dam was the good stakes winner Raise You, by Case Ace. Raise a Native was sold as a weanling to Mrs. E. H. Augustus for a record sum of $22,000 ($180,000 inflation adjusted). He was later was bought by Louis Wolfson as a yearling in 1962 for $39,000 ($310,000 inflation adjusted) and moved to Wolfson's Harbor View Farm in 1963.
Trained by future Hall of Fame inductee Burley Parke, as a two-year-old Raise a Native was undefeated in four starts and set or equaled track records three times. He won the sprint races the Great American Stakes and the Belmont Juvenile and was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt by Turf & Sports Digest. The rival Daily Racing Form and Thoroughbred Racing Association polls were topped by Hurry to Market.
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