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Temperence Hill

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Temperence Hill
SireStop The Music
GrandsireHail To Reason
DamSister Shannon
DamsireEtonian
SexStallion
FoaledMarch 6, 1977[1]
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederDr. Albert F. Polk, Jr.
OwnerLoblolly Stable
TrainerJoseph B. Cantey
Record31: 11-4-2
Earnings$1,567,650
Major wins
Rebel Stakes (1980)
Arkansas Derby (1980)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1980)
Super Derby (1980)
Travers Stakes (1980)
Oaklawn Handicap (1981)
Razorback Handicap (1981)
Suburban Handicap (1981) Triple Crown race wins:
Belmont Stakes (1980)
Awards
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

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Temperence Hill was a bay horse bred in Kentucky by Dr. Albert F. Polk, Jr.'s Oriskany Farm. He was sired by Stop The Music out of the Etonian mare, Sister Shannon. He was named for a 19th-century Arkansas Methodist 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

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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

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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 North America, Temperence Hill sired 3 foreign champions, 39 stakes winners, and 433 winners from 602 starters with total earnings of $26,538,905. The best of his runners was Temperate Sil who won the 1986 Hollywood Futurity and in 1987, the Santa Anita Derby and the Swaps Stakes.

Pedigree

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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


References

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  1. ^ "Free 5-Cross Thoroughbred Pedigrees from equineline.com - Thoroughbred Pedigree now with Free Interactive Nicking". equineline.com. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
  2. ^ "Temperence Hill Horse Pedigree".