Temperence Hill

Temperence Hill
Sire	Suburban Handicap (1981) United States Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1980)
Last updated on October 11, 2007

Temperence Hill (March 1977 – June 2003) was a Champion American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Temperence Hill was a bay horse bred in

church that his owner's ancestors attended.

Temperence Hill was consigned to the 1978 Keeneland September yearling sale, where he was purchased and raced by Arkansas lumberman John Ed Anthony and his former wife, Mary Lynn Dudley under their Loblolly Stable colors. He was trained throughout his career by Joseph B. Cantey.

Racing career

After showing strong potential throughout the spring of 1980, with wins in Kentucky Derby prep races, the Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby, Temperence Hill's breakthrough performance came in the 1980 Belmont Stakes where he defeated Kentucky Derby winner Genuine Risk and Preakness Stakes winner Codex at odds of 53-1. He went on to win several additional Grade I stakes and was voted Champion three-year-old of 1980.

Stud record

Temperence Hill was retired after the 1981 racing season with career earnings of $1,567,650. He was syndicated and began his stallion career near Lexington, Kentucky at Gainesway Farm. In the early 1990s he was moved to Bonnerdale, Arkansas where he stood at D-Lan Farms and then Starr Farm. In the fall of 1996, he was sold to Thailand's only thoroughbred farm owner, Police General Sharlie Pekanan. Temperence Hill died peacefully in 2003 at SawangJai Farm 2 hours from Bangkok along the Friendship Highway near Bangkok, Thailand.

In 16 seasons of breeding in

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Pedigree

Pedigree of Temperence Hill ^[2]

Sire Stop The Music b. 1970	Hail to Reason br. 1958	Turn-To b. 1951	Royal Charger
			Source Sucree
		Nothirdchance b. 1948	Blue Swords
			Galla Colors
	Bebopper b. 1962	Tom Fool b. 1949	Menow
			Gaga
		Bebop b. 1957	Prince Bio
			Cappellina
Dam Sister Shannon b. 1965	Etonian br. 1954	Owen Tudor br. 1938	Hyperion
			Mary Tudor
		Windsor Whisper br. 1945	Windsor Slipper
			Inkling
	Idaliza b. 1957	Princely Gift b. 1951	Nasrullah
			Blue Gem
		Pearl Fishing br. 1947	Fair Copy
			Brinda

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