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Savatiano (horse)
Savatiano (foaled 7 September 2014) is a retired, multiple stakes winning Australian bred thoroughbred racehorse. Background A Darley homebred, Savatiano is a half-sister to Athiri (Lonhro), who was placed in the Blue Diamond Prelude Fillies, Kindergarten Stakes and Magic Night Stakes. Her second dam Star Shiraz won the G1 Sires' Produce Stakes and was placed in the G1 Coolmore Classic and the TJ Smith Classic. Racing career Savatiano is the winner of 12 races which includes 7 Stakes races. Her most prestigious win was the 2021 Canterbury Stakes at Group 1 Group 1 may refer to: * Alkali metal, a chemical element classification for Alkali metal * Group 1 (racing), a historic (until 1981) classification for Touring car racing, applied to standard touring cars. Comparable to modern FIA Group N * Group On ... level. However, twelve months later she was disqualified from this race for returning a positive swab to a prohibited substance. Pedigree References {{reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Cry
Street Cry (11 March 1998 – 17 September 2014) was a Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2002 Dubai World Cup, the 2002 Stephen Foster Handicap and runner up in the 2002 Whitney Handicap. He was an international shuttle stallion that stood at the Darley Studs in Australia and the US. He is noteworthy for being the sire of one of the greatest racehorses of all time, Winx, who was retired from racing in April 2019 with a world record of 25 Group 1 wins and also won the last 33 races of her career, the longest winning streak for a top-level racehorse in over a century. At her retirement, she was rated by Longines as the best racehorse in the world. He is also the sire of US racing sensation Zenyatta. Owned and bred by Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing, he was by the dual Group One (G1) winner Machiavellian, a son of Mr. Prospector. His dam, Helen Street (dam of nine winners) won the 1985 Irish Oaks and was by multiple Group 1 winner Troy. Racing record Two-year-old Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sires' Produce Stakes (BRC)
The Sires' Produce Stakes is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds run at set weights over 1400 metres, at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. Total prize money is A$1,000,000. History The race was always held at Eagle Farm Racecourse until 2013 when the BRC scheduled it at Doomben Racecourse for the first time with a slightly shorter distance of 1350 metres. Grade *1882–1979 - Principal Race *1980–1986 - Group 2 *1987–2005 - Group 1 *2006 onwards - Group 2 Distance * 1882–1972 - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres) * 1973–2012 – 1400 metres * 2013–2016 - 1350 metres * 2017 onwards - 1400 metres Venue * prior 2013 - Eagle Farm Racecourse * 2013–2016 - Doomben Racecourse * 2017 - Eagle Farm Racecourse * 2018 - Doomben Racecourse * 2019 - Eagle Farm Racecourse Winners * 2022 - Sheeza Belter * 2021 - Tiger Of Malay * 2020 - ‡''race not held'' * 2019 - Strasb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danzig (horse)
Danzig (February 12, 1977 – January 4, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known as a leading sire. He was purchased for $310,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) by Henryk de Kwiatkowski at the 1978 Saratoga Yearling Sale. The son of Hall of Famer Northern Dancer and the most commercially successful sire of the second half of the 20th century, he won all three of his races before knee problems ended his racing career. Stud record Danzig was retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, where he became one of the world's most important sires. He led the U.S. sires list from 1991 to 1993 and topped the sire list in Spain and the United Arab Emirates. Danzig sired 188 graded stakes race winners and 10 champions. His foals have earned more than $100 million in purse money and include Breeders' Cup winners Chief's Crown, Lure, Dance Smartly, and War Chant as well as the European champions Dayjur and Anabaa. Danzig also sired 1992 Preak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverman
Riverman (1969–1999) was a French Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse. Background Foaled in Kentucky, Riverman was bred by Harry F. Guggenheim of the prominent American Guggenheim family. Riverman was from the mare (horse), mare River Lady and sired by Guggenheim's stallion Never Bend, a grandson of the extremely important sire, Nearco. Purchased by French perfume magnate Pierre Wertheimer, head of the Chanel, House of Chanel, the colt raced under the colors of his wife, Germaine. Racing career Horse trainer, Trained by Alec Head, Riverman was sent to the track in 1971 where he won the Prix Yacowlef and finished second in the Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte. The following year, he won the Group II Prix Jean Prat plus two Group One races, the Prix d'Ispahan and the Poule d'Essai des Poulains. Sent to race in England, he notably ran third to Brigadier Gerard (horse), Brigadier Gerard in July's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and second to him in October's Champion St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petingo
Petingo (1965–1976) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire (horse), sire. In a racing career which lasted from June 1967 until August 1968 he ran nine times and won six races. In 1967 he was unbeaten in three starts including the Gimcrack Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes and was officially rated the best two-year-old in Britain. In the following year he was defeated by Sir Ivor in the 2000 Guineas but won the St. James's Palace Stakes and the Sussex Stakes. He was then retired to stud where he proved to be a very successful stallion before his death at the age of eleven. Background Petingo was a big, powerfully-built bay horse with a white Horse markings, blaze and white sock (horse marking), socks on his hind legs. He was bred by Nicholas Hall's Pinfold Stud at Marthall, near Knutsford in Cheshire. He was sired by Petition, whose wins included the Eclipse Stakes and who was best known at stud for getting the outstanding filly Petite Étoile. His dam, Alcazar was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halo (horse)
Halo (February 7, 1969 – November 28, 2000) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and an important Champion sire. Background Bred in Kentucky by John R. Gaines, founder of the Breeders Cup, Halo was out of the mare Cosmah (who was the Kentucky Broodmare of the Year in 1974), which made him a half-brother to the Hall of Fame filly Tosmah. His sire was Hail To Reason, the U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and a great-grandson of the extremely important sire Nearco. Purchased by Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., owner of Nijinsky, Halo raced under his Cragwood Stable banner. Racing career After having little success at age two racing on dirt tracks, in his three-year-old campaign his U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller switched him to racing on turf, where he achieved better results. Although never a superstar horse, Halo raced for four years and in 1974, at age five, won the Grade I United Nations Handicap. Stud record After retiring from racing, in 1975 Halo was sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Digger (horse)
Gold Digger (May 28, 1962 - February 21, 1990) was an American Thoroughbred racemare who won back-to-back runnings of the Gallorette Handicap but is most famous for being the Dam of Mr. Prospector. Background Gold Digger's name came from the highly publicized 1955 murder of William Woodward Jr. who owned Gold Digger's sire, Nashua. The word "gold digger" refers to a person who engages in a relationship for money instead of love. Career Owned by Combs wife Dorothy (née Enslow), Gold Digger was trained by Jouett Reed. Gold Digger's first race was on January 1, 1964 in which she finished 3rd in the Matron Stakes. 1964 proved to be a winless year for Gold Digger. She won the 1965 Columbiana Handicap in February 1965. Gold Digger captured the September 1965 Marigold Stakes at Latonia Race Track in Kentucky, then in October won the Yo Tambien Handicap at Chicago's Hawthorne Race Course. She then won the November 1965 Gallorette Handicap at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raise A Native
Raise a Native (April 18, 1961 – July 28, 1988) was an undefeated Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse that was named 1963 champion two-year-old colt in the Turf and Sport Digest poll and was the highest rated juvenile in the Experimental Free Handicap. He sired 74 stakes winners, including Majestic Prince and Alydar. In its 1988 obituary for the horse, ''The New York Times'' called him "the most influential sire of American Thoroughbred stallions over the last 20 years". Breeding Raise a Native was bred by Happy Hill Farm, owned by Cortright Wetherill (1923–1988) and his wife Ella A. Widener-Wetherill, Ella Anne Widener (1928–1986), whose Widener family of Philadelphia is one of the most prominent in American Thoroughbred racing history. Raise a Native was by the 1954 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, United States Horse of the Year Native Dancer, who was ranked #7 by the Blood-Horse magazine listing of the Blood-Horse magazine List of Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danehill (horse)
Danehill (March 26, 1986 – May 13, 2003) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the most successful sire of all time with 349 stakes winners and 89 Grade 1 winners. He was the leading sire in Australia nine times, the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland three times, and the leading sire in France twice. Background Danehill was a bay stallion by leading sire Danzig (by Northern Dancer) out of Razyana (by His Majesty). Danehill was inbred twice to Natalma in the third generation (3x3) of his pedigree. He was a brother to a stakes winner, Eagle Eyed, and two other stallions, Anziyan and Nuclear Freeze. Danehill was owned during his racing career by Khalid Abdullah, who also bred him. Racing career Trained by Jeremy Tree, Danehill ran nine times, winning four. As a three-year-old, following a third placing in the 2,000 Guineas behind Nashwan and a fourth place in the Irish equivalent, Danehill was switched to sprinting, winning the Cork and Orrery Stakes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy (horse)
Troy (25 March 1976 – 12 May 1983) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1978 to 1979, he ran eleven times and won eight races. He is most notable for his form in the summer of 1979, when he won the 200th running of the Derby and subsequently added victories in the Irish Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup. He was retired to stud at the end of the season. His career as a stallion lasted only four years before he died in 1983. Background Troy, a big, powerfully built bay horse with three white socks, was bred in County Meath, Ireland, by the Ballymacoll Stud, the breeding operation of his owners, industrialist Sir Michael Sobell and his son-in-law Lord Weinstock. He was sired by Petingo, the leading English two-year-old of 1967, and was out of the mare La Milo. La Milo had previously produced Washington D. C. International winner Admetus. Troy was sent into training w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Street
Helen Street (4 April 1982 – after 2004) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old she was rated the best British-trained filly of her generation after winning the Prix du Calvados and finishing second under top weight in the Fillies' Mile. In the following year she was a top-class performer over middle distances, winning the Irish Oaks, finishing third in the Yorkshire Oaks and fourth in both the Champion Stakes and the Washington, D.C. International Stakes. After her retirement from racing she had a successful career a broodmare, producing Street Cry and Helsinki, the dam of Shamardal. Background Helen Street was a "big, rangy, quite attractive" bay mare with a small white star bred and owned by Arnold Weinstock and Michael Sobell of the Ballymacoll Stud. She was sent into training with Dick Hern at West Ilsley in Berkshire. She was from the second of four crops of foals sired by Troy, an outstanding middle-distance performer who won The Derby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group One
Group One, Group 1, Grade I or G1 is the term used for the highest level of Thoroughbred and Standardbred stakes races in many countries. In Europe, the level of races for Thoroughbred racing is determined using the Pattern races, Pattern race system introduced in 1971 and monitored by the European Pattern Committee. To attain or maintain a Group One status, the average rating for the first four finishers in the race must be 115 or higher over a three-year period. The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities works to ensure consistent international standards. Group One races may only be restricted to age groups or a stipulated sex: they should not be restricted to horses bred in a certain country (though there are regional exceptions to this rule). Group One (G1) races may be run under Handicap (horse racing), handicap conditions in Australia, but in Europe Weight for Age, weight-for-age conditions always apply. In the United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa, and Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
