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•   Assault 1946 Triple Crown Champion
The story of Assault, with the breeding of a champion in his bloodlines, is one that epitomizes the heart and courage of race horse. By Bold Venture and out of Igual, he became the greatest of King Ranch's major stakes winners, completing a racing career that brought eighteen victories and total earnings of $674,720.

•   Book Review - Assault (Thoroughbred Legends)
In the year that the Breeders' Cup came to the Lone Star State for the first time, sixth-generation Texan Eva Jolene Boyd set out to write a fitting tribute to Assault. Bred in south Texas at Robert Kleberg's King Ranch, the undersized horse dubbed the "Clubfooted Comet" swept the Triple Crown in 1946 for trainer Max Hirsch, who also hailed from Texas.

•   Thoroughbred Champions - Assault
Assault's first act of note was to spear his right front foot on a surveyor's stake, inflicting an injury which never gave him trouble at full flight, but resulted in an odd limp when he walked. This earned him several nicknames, including "cripple" and "club foot". But when he ran, he was magnificent, and the new nickname became "the club-footed comet".

•   Thoroughbred Times - Assault
As a race horse, however, Assault eventually became a thing of beauty. He finished 12th in his career debut and won just two-of-nine starts in his juvenile season in 1945. But early in his three-year-old campaign, the colt began to get his act together, winning the Wood Memorial Stakes.