[2][3] Indian Ridge was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze[4] bred at the Broadfield Stud in County Kildare, Ireland by Bill and Averil Whitehead.
[8] By the time of Indian Ridge's racing career the Byerley Turk line, once one of the most important in the Thoroughbred breed, had dwindled in significance, with Ahonoora and his male descendants being regarded as by far its best chance of survival.
At the end of the season the independent Timeform organisation gave him a rating of 93, 34 pounds behind their best two-year-old Warning[6] After missing the early part of 1988, Indian Ridge made his debut as a three-year-old in the Group Three Jersey Stakes over seven furlongs at Royal Ascot on 15 June.
[14] Cauthen was again in the saddle when Indian Ridge appeared for the second time at Royal Ascot and started the 9/4 favourite in a fourteen-runner field for the Group Two King's Stand Stakes over five furlongs on 23 June.
Indian Ridge was among the leaders from the start, went to the front two furlongs from the finish and held on in the final strides to win by a neck and a head from Tigani and Gallic League.
[15] On 6 August the colt was sent to France and moved back up in distance for the Prix Maurice de Gheest over 1300 metres at Deauville Racecourse but made little impact and finished fifth of the nine runners, beaten five lengths by the winner Cricket Ball.
Major winners produced by his daughters have included Airwave, Dancing Rain, Nightime, Kingsgate Native, Excelebration, Wilko, Jwala, Nahoodh, Reel Buddy and Halfway to Heaven * Indian Ridge is inbred 4S x 4D to the stallion Discipliner, meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.