I want to know about Majestic Prince career in details.?

Question

I like horse racing. I am going to search legend horse racing career. I missed searching Majestic Prince racing career in details. Please show me his racing career in details.

Answer 1

Greyt-mom has most of the details of The Prince's racing career, but I've got some other details that are interesting.

When Majestic Prince went through the auction ring at Keeneland in the Spendthrift Farm consignment, and the hammer fell at $250,000 (a new world's record for a Thoroughbred yearling sold at public auction), buyer Frank McMahon was actually bidding "50 cent dollars," because he had bred and owned "The Prince" in partnership with Leslie Coombs II, in whose Spendthrift Farms consignment The Prince sold.  The hidden ownership was not publicly announced at the time of the sale and there were some people who speculated that McMahon and Coombs may have "rigged" the bidding to promote the stallion career of Raise a Native.  Coombs was something of an promoter and was not above playing a little manipulation game to promote a stallion.  Majestic Prince was in the first crop of Raise a Native foals, and as Raise a Native was lightly raced, strong sales prices for his first foals were a boost to his popularity.

g*y Hostess, dam of The Prince, also foaled his full brother Crowned Prince, who was sold for another record, over $500,000.  g*y Hostess went on to foal a filly named Betty Loraine, who produced French Derby winner Caracolero to the cover of the *Ribot stallion Graustark, and Matsadoon, sire of popular California runner of some years back Doonesbury.

His dam, g*y Hostess, was out of the mare Your Hostess, who was a full sister to Your Host, sire of 5-time horse of the year Kelso.

I saw Majestic Prince when he was a racehorse, and I have to say this:  he had the most beautiful head of any Thoroughbred I've ever seen.  He was an awesome red chestnut and an amazingly beautiful animal.  

The trophy he won in the Kentucky Derby came up for auction some years back, a story that is told here:

http://www.liveauctiontalk.com/free_arti...

His performance on the racetrack was a big boost to his sire, Raise a Native, who went on to sire dozens of other stakes winners as well as the immortal sire Mr. Prospector.  

Majestic Prince as a stallion was not of the caliber of Mr. Prospector, but he did sire Coastal, who won the Belmont Stakes, and Majestic Light, who earned over $650,000.  He sired many useful winners but his male line has pretty much died out, and the influence he has in pedigrees is largely in the "collateral lines" rather than the topline sire lines.

He was an amazingly beautiful horse, stunning to look at.  I have to say that I've seen some great champions up close and personal-- Seattle Slew, Secretariat, Northern Dancer, *Vaguely Noble, Graustark, El Gran Senor, Nijinsky II and The Minstrel among them, and The Prince was the best looking of them all.  The only one who came close, IMO, was The Minstrel.  I have to believe that if The Prince's racing career had been managed more carefully, if his connections had bipassed the Belmont Stakes and given him a rest, he might have been counted among the greatest racehorses of the second half of the 20th century.

Answer 2

Majestic Prince's record 10-9-1-0 with stakes wins in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Santa Anita Derby, San Vicente, San Jacinto and Los Feliz Stakes.  Famous for being 1/2 of Johnny Longdon's two Kentucky Derby winners - he is the only person in history to ride (Count Fleet) and train (Majestic Prince) Derby winners.  Majestic Prince was undefeated in his career through the Preakness but trained poorly leading up to the Belmont Stakes.  Longdon later remarked that he wouldn't have run in the Belmont except for the pressure of having a Triple Crown winner (at that time it had been 21 years since Citation won).  Majestic Prince fought gamely through the stretch of the Belmont but lost to Arts and Letters, a horse he had beaten in both the Derby and Preakness.  Majestic Prince was injured in the race and never ran again.  Arts and Letters went on to become a  champion and Horse of the Year.  You can watch a replay of their Preakness online at http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.a... and their Belmont at http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.a... and an article about the race http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...

Majestic Prince is also remembered for being one of the first horses to popularize the yearling auctions.  He was purchased for $250,000 in 1967.