Sunday Silence

Hot acid patina with nickel plate; sterling silver bit Signed $16000. - 19000. From a yearling that nobody would buy to a Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sunday Silence defied all the odds in his remarkable rise as one of the most influential Thoroughbreds of modern times. His three-year-old rivalry with Easy Goer was one for the books encompassing the 1989 Triple Crown season and culminating in the defeat of his nemesis at Gulfstream in the Breeders' Cup Classic later that year. The near-black stallion with a blue-collar pedigree took up residence at Japan's Shadai Stallion Station where he ranked number one on the country's leading sire list from 1995 through 2007.