Assagai was a bay horse bred in Kentucky, he was sired by Warfare and out of the mare, Primary.
Purchased by the international business tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., he was trained by future U.S.
At age three, Assagai was the top turf horse in the U.S. whose wins in 1966 in the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City Race Course[1] and Man o' War Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack[2] resulted in him being voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse.
Sent back to the track at age four, Assagai's most important win of 1967 came in the Long Island Handicap.
In 1986, at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, Louisiana, the twenty-three-year-old Assagai was humanely euthanized due to laminitis.