# Our Boots

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**Our Boots** (foaled 1938) was an American [Champion](/source/Eclipse_Award) [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) racehorse. He won a *[Daily Racing Form](/source/Daily_Racing_Form)* poll to be voted the 1940 [American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt](/source/American_Champion_Two-Year-Old_Colt).[1] The rival Turf & Sports Digest poll was topped by [Whirlaway](/source/Whirlaway). He was sired by [Bull Dog](/source/Bull_Dog_(horse)), the 1943 [Leading sire in North America](/source/Leading_sire_in_North_America), and was out of the [English-born](/source/England) mare Maid of Arches.[2]

Our Boots was owned and raced by the Woodvale Farm of [Royce G. Martin](/source/Royce_G._Martin), who bought him at the [Saratoga Sales](/source/Saratoga_Race_Course) for $3,500.[3] He was trained by Steve Judge. The colt's most important wins of his two-year-old championship season came in the Futurity Trial [4] and the [Futurity Stakes](/source/Belmont_Futurity_Stakes) at [Belmont Park](/source/Belmont_Park), in which he defeated future [U.S. Triple Crown](/source/United_States_Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) winner and [Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) inductee [Whirlaway](/source/Whirlaway).[5]

A winterbook favorite for the [Kentucky Derby](/source/Kentucky_Derby), Our Boots won the [Blue Grass Stakes](/source/Blue_Grass_Stakes), then finished eighth in the Derby and third in the [Preakness Stakes](/source/Preakness_Stakes).

As a [sire](/source/Sire), Our Boots produced some offspring that met with modest racing success.[6]

## References

1. [*The Bloodhorse.com* Champion's history charts](http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf)

1. [Our Boots pedigree](http://www.pedigreequery.com/our+boots)

1. [St. Petersburg Times - November 23, 1940](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-DRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4424,7071595&dq=futurity+our-boots+3500&hl=en)

1. [New York Times - September 25, 1940](https://www.nytimes.com/1940/09/25/archives/haskell-colt-141-victor-at-belmont-our-boots-leads-springwood-by-3.html)

1. [Los Angeles Times - September 29, 1940](https://archive.today/20120730201942/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/410375771.html?dids=410375771:410375771&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+29,+1940&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Our+Boots+Finishes+Fast+to+Annex+Rich+Belmont+Futurity&pqatl=google)

1. [Our Boots' progeny](http://www.pedigreequery.com/progeny/our+boots)

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