Raja Baba
| Raja Baba | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Bold Ruler |
| Grandsire | Nasrullah |
| Dam | Missy Baba |
| Damsire | My Babu |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1968 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark Bay |
| Breeder | Michael G. Phipps |
| Owner | Michael G. Phipps |
| Trainer | Del W. Carroll |
| Record | 41: 7-12-9 |
| Earnings | US$123,287 |
| Major wins | |
| Alligator Handicap (1970) Francis Scott Key Stakes (1971) Delaware Valley Handicap (1971) |
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| Awards | |
| Leading sire in North America (1980) | |
| Honours | |
| Raja Baba Purse at Aqueduct Racetrack | |
Raja Baba (April 5, 1968 – October 9, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who became the 1980 Champion sire in North America.
Raja Baba was sired by Bold Ruler, the leading sire in North America eight times and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee. His dam was Missy Baba, a daughter of My Babu, a winner of the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1948 who became the influential sire of forty-seven stakes winners and a damsire sire of ninety-five winners.
Raja Baba was bred and raced by Michael G. Phipps, the son of Ogden Phipps.
In 1970, two-year-old Raja Baba soon developed into a good sprint horse who was noted primarily for his speed and mud-running ability. As a three-year-old, he won the Francis Scott Key Stakes at Bowie Race Course followed a week later by a division of the Delaware Valley Handicap at Garden State Park. At age four, Raja Baba won the Bold Ruler Purse at Delaware Park Racetrack and finished second in the Phoenix Handicap at Keeneland, the Japan Racing Association Handicap at Laurel Park, and the Garrison Handicap at Liberty Bell Park Racetrack.
Near the end of his racing career, Raja Baba was sold to William S. Farish III who in turn sold a half interest to breeder, Warner L. Jones. He was syndicated in 1972 in a 36 share deal at $10,000 per share, a figure that his success as a stallion would see rise to a selling price of $205,000 per share on the open market by 1982. Retired from racing at the end of 1972, he was sent to stand at stud at Warner Jones' Hermitage Farm near Goshen, Kentucky. As a freshman stallion in 1976, Raja Baba was the leading juvenile sire in the United States and four years later both the leading juvenile sire and overall leading sire in the United States. In 1983 the highly successful British horseman Robert Sangster paid $2.6 million for the Raja Baba colt, Side Chapel.
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