Our Boots

Our Boots
SireBull Dog
GrandsireTeddy
DamMaid of Arches
DamsireWarden of the Marches
SexStallion
Foaled1938
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederCharles B. Shaffer
OwnerWoodvale Farm
TrainerSteve Judge
Record32: 9-3-7
EarningsUS$126,152
Major wins
Futurity Trial (1940)
Belmont Futurity Stakes (1940)
Blue Grass Stakes (1941)
Yankee Handicap (1941)
Awards
DRF American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1940)

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

Our Boots was owned and raced by the Woodvale Farm of Royce G. Martin, who bought him at the Saratoga Sales 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 at Belmont Park, in which he defeated future U.S. Triple Crown winner and Hall of Fame inductee Whirlaway.[5]

A winterbook favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Our Boots won the Blue Grass Stakes, then finished eighth in the Derby and third in the Preakness Stakes.

As a sire, Our Boots produced some offspring that met with modest racing success.[6]