Our Boots
{{Short description|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}
{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Our Boots
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| sire = Bull Dog
| grandsire = Teddy
| dam = Maid of Arches
| damsire = Warden of the Marches
| sex = Stallion
| foaled = 1938
| country = United States
| colour = Bay
| breeder = Charles B. Shaffer
| owner = Woodvale Farm
| trainer = Steve Judge
| record = 32: 9-3-7
| earnings = US$126,152
| race = Futurity Trial (1940)
Belmont Futurity Stakes (1940)
Blue Grass Stakes (1941)
Yankee Handicap (1941)
| awards = DRF American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1940)
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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.[http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf The Bloodhorse.com Champion's history charts] 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.[http://www.pedigreequery.com/our+boots Our Boots pedigree]
Our Boots was owned and raced by the Woodvale Farm of Royce G. Martin, who bought him at the Saratoga Sales for $3,500.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-DRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4424,7071595&dq=futurity+our-boots+3500&hl=en St. Petersburg Times - November 23, 1940] He was trained by Steve Judge. The colt's most important wins of his two-year-old championship season came in the Futurity Trial [https://www.nytimes.com/1940/09/25/archives/haskell-colt-141-victor-at-belmont-our-boots-leads-springwood-by-3.html New York Times - September 25, 1940] and the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park, in which he defeated future U.S. Triple Crown winner and Hall of Fame inductee Whirlaway.[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 Los Angeles Times - September 29, 1940]
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.[http://www.pedigreequery.com/progeny/our+boots Our Boots' progeny]