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Photograph of Hail to Reason (Bobby Ussery up) winning Saratoga’s 1960 Hopeful Stakes by ten lengths.
Hail to Reason, multiple stakes-winning Thoroughbred, was named American Champion Two-Year-Colt in 1960. He retired to stud at Hagyard Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, with a record of 9-2-2 from 18 starts, with earnings of $328,434. Hail to Reason was the top sire in North America in 1970.
Robert Nelson ‘Bobby’ Ussery’s racing career spanned more than two decades (1951 – 1974). Ussery was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1980.