He started favorite to win the 2000 Guineas in 1958 but finished unplaced behind his unfancied stable companion Pall Mall.
In 1960, at age five, Bald Eagle set new track records winning the Metropolitan and Widener Handicaps.
[1] Retired to stud at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky, Bald Eagle met with only modest success; he sired a dozen graded stakes race winners.
[2] Bald Eagle was the maternal grandsire of Capote, the 1986 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
Champions: the Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds, The Daily Racing Form