Alkaased (foaled 19 February 2000) is an American-bred, British-trained
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are c ...
racehorse best known for winning the 2005
Japan Cup
The is one of the most prestigious horse races in Japan. It is contested on the last Sunday of November, post time of 15:40 at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo at a distance of 2400 meters (about miles) run under weight for age conditions with ...
in a then world record time. In a racing career which lasted from September 2002 until November 2005, he won six of his sixteen races and finished second on seven occasions. In his first three seasons he made steady improvement, winning the
Old Newton Cup
The Old Newton Cup is a flat Handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses of four-year-old and up. It is run at Haydock over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 175 yards (2,373 metres), a ...
and the
Glorious Stakes
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in 2004. In the following year he developed into a world-class middle-distance performer, winning the
Jockey Club Stakes
The Jockey Club Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs (2,414 metres) on t ...
in England and the
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud
The Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it is sc ...
in France before beating a strong international field in the Japan Cup. After his retirement from racing he has stood as a breeding stallion in Japan and England.
Background
Alkaased is a bay horse with no white markings bred by Robin Scully's Clovelly Farms at
Lexington, Kentucky
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. Alkaased's sire,
Kingmambo
Kingmambo (February 19, 1990 – January 20, 2016) was an American-bred, French-trained thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
Background
He was sired by the leading stallion, Mr. Prospector, who in turn was a son of Raise a Native, out of the 1999 ...
was a highly successful breeding stallion. His progeny included the British Classic winners
Russian Rhythm
Russian Rhythm is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active broodmare who was bred in the United States but trained in the United Kingdom. During a racing career which lasted from June 2002 until May 2004 she ran ten times and won seven races. ...
,
King's Best
Kings Best (24 January 1997 – 16 April 2019) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2000 Guineas Stakes. He was described by his trainer Michael Stoute as the best miler he'd ever trained.
Background
King's Best ...
,
Henrythenavigator
Henrythenavigator (foaled February 28, 2005) is an American-bred and Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the 2000 Guineas, the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St. James's Palace Stakes and the Sussex Stakes in 2008.
After he finished second i ...
,
Virginia Waters
Virginia Waters (foaled 15 February 2002) is an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from September 2004 to October 2005 she ran twelve times and won three races. After winning once from four star ...
and
Rule of Law
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as well as major winners in Japan (
El Condor Pasa), France (
Divine Proportions
Divine Proportions (born 13 March 2002 in Kentucky) is a champion Thoroughbred race horse and winner of two French classics.
Background
Divine Proportions was bred by the Niarchos family. She was sired by the American-bred stallion Kingmambo. ...
) and the United States (
Lemon Drop Kid
Lemon Drop Kid (foaled May 26, 1996) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Best known for winning the 1999 Belmont Stakes, he was also the champion older horse of 2000 after winning the Brooklyn, Suburban, Whitney Handicaps and the ...
). Alkaased's dam Chesa Plana raced in Germany where she finished second in five
Group race
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s including the
Grosser Preis von Berlin
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. As a descendant of the broodmare Mesopatamia, she came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 10-c which produced
Mastery
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,
Galaxy Libra (
Sunset Handicap
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,
Man o' War Stakes
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),
Halling,
Cherokee Rose
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(
Haydock Sprint Cup
The Sprint Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and ...
,
Prix Maurice de Gheest
The Prix Maurice de Gheest is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Deauville over a distance of 1,300 metres (about 6½ furlongs), and it is sched ...
) and
Balla Cove
Balla Cove (foaled 18 March 1987) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who competed in Britain and the United States. He was at his best as a two-year-old in 1989 when he was placed in the Bernard Van Cutsem Stakes and the Solario ...
(
Middle Park Stakes
The Middle Park Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old colts. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is s ...
,
Round Table Handicap
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).
As a
yearling
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, Alkaased was sent to the
Keeneland
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sales in September 2001 where he was bought for $325,000 by Hamdan Al Maktoum's Shadwell Estates. He was sent to race in England where he was trained by
Michael Stoute
Sir Michael Ronald Stoute (born 22 October 1945) is a Barbadian British Thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing.
Career
Stoute, whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assis ...
at
Newmarket, Suffolk
Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. Located (14 miles) west of Bury St Edmunds and (14 miles) northeast of Cambridge. It is considered the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred hor ...
.
Racing career
2002: two-year-old season
Alkaased began his racing career at
Doncaster Racecourse
Doncaster Racecourse (also known as the Town Moor course) is a racecourse in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It hosts two of Great Britain's 36 annual Group 1 flat races, the St Leger Stakes and the Racing Post Trophy.
History
Doncas ...
on 11 September 2002 when he finished fourth behind the odd-on favourite Maghanim. In the following month he started favourite for a one-mile
maiden race
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at
Newmarket Racecourse
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and finished fourth of the sixteen runners behind Persian Majesty.
2003: three-year-old season
Alkaased did not appear in 2003 until July, when he finished second in a maiden at
Yarmouth
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. On 25 August he started the 1/8 favourite for a maiden race over one and a half miles at
Ripon Racecourse
Ripon Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England and is nicknamed the Garden Racecourse.
History
Racing on the present site on Boroughbridge Road began on 6 August 1900. but racing has taken plac ...
. Ridden by Willie Supple, he recorded his first success, taking the lead half a mile from the finish and winning by four lengths despite being eased down in the closing stages. In his two remaining races of the season, Alkaased finished second when carrying top weight in
handicap races
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The skill in betting on a h ...
at Newmarket and
Leicester
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The city l ...
.
At the end of October, Alkaased was sent to the
Tattersalls
Tattersalls (formerly Tattersall's) is the main auctioneer of race horses in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Founding
It was founded in 1766 by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), who had been stud groom to the second Duke of Kingston. T ...
Horses in Training sale where he was bought for 42,000
guineas
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by Foster Bloodstock. The colt entered the ownership of the
Monte Carlo
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-based businessman Michael Charlton.
and was transferred to the stable of
Luca Cumani Luca M. Cumani (born 7 April 1949, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian thoroughbred horse trainer and breeder. He trained at Bedford House Stables in Newmarket from 1976 to 2019. He has trained a multitude of high-profile horses, including seven Clas ...
.
2004: four-year-old season
On his first appearance for his new connections, Alkaased finished second by a head to Wunderwood in a race over one and a half miles at Newmarket on 5 June. Four weeks later, the colt carried 127 pounds and started at odds of 7/1 for the Old Newton Cup, a one and a half mile handicap at
Haydock Park Racecourse
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. Ridden by Jimmy Fortune, he took the lead a quarter of a mile from the finish and drew clear of his rivals to win by four lengths. On 30 July, Alkaased was moved up in class to contest the Listed
Glorious Stakes
The Glorious Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 218 yards (2,412 metres), ...
at
Goodwood Racecourse
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and was made the 11/4 favourite against eight opponents. He took the lead approaching the final furlong and ran on strongly to win by a neck from the Stoute-trained First Charter. Alkaased was moved up to Group race class for the first time when he contested the
September Stakes
The September Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 219 yards (2,413 metr ...
at
Kempton Park Racecourse
Kempton Park Racecourse is a horse racing track together with a licensed entertainment and conference venue in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 16 miles south-west of Charing Cross, London and on a border of Greater London. The site has of ...
. He started the 6/4 favourite, but was beaten half a length by the dual Group One winner
Mamool
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Bred and raced by the operations of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai, among Mamool's wins were the Queen's Vase and the ...
, with Bandari in third place.
2005: five-year-old season
Alkaased recorded his first Group race win on his five-year-old debut at Newmarket on 1 May. Starting the 2/1 favourite, he won the Jockey Club Stakes, beating
Gamut
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by one and a half lengths, with Bandari third and
Warrsan
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, foaled = 1998
, country = Ir ...
fourth. A month later, Alkaased moved up to Group One level for the first time and started favourite for the
Coronation Cup
The Coronation Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 6 yards (2, ...
at
Epsom Downs Racecourse
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The course, which has a crowd capacity of 13 ...
. He was restrained in last by Fortune in the early stages and by the time he moved into contention in the straight
Yeats
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had already established a decisive lead. Alkaased finished second, beaten two and a half lengths by the Irish colt: Fortune never rode the horse again. Three weeks later, Alkaased raced outside the United Kingdom for the first time when he was sent to France to contest the
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud
The Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it is sc ...
. Ridden by
Frankie Dettori
Lanfranco Dettori (; born 15 December 1970), better known as Frankie Dettori, is an Italian horse racing jockey based in the United Kingdom. Dettori has been British flat racing Champion Jockey three times and has ...
he started at odds of 6/1 in a field of eleven which included Yeats,
Bago
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...
, and
Elvstroem
Elvstroem (foaled 14 November 2000 in Australia) was a bay Thoroughbred racehorse, by world champion sire Danehill from the former champion three-year-old filly, Circles of Gold.
Dam
Circles of Gold, is a 1991 chestnut mare by the Australasi ...
. Dettori held up Alkaased towards the back of the field before moving up on the inside rail to take second place entering the straight. He overtook the
pacemaker
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Imago Mundi 300 metres from the finish and went clear to win by two lengths from Policy Maker, with Bago finishing third ahead of Elvstroem. After the race, Luca Cumani said "We are already thinking about the
Arc de Triomphe
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with a run before in the
Prix Foy
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. We will have to think about the
King George now and I will be speaking with the owner but he is a horse that must have
good or firmer ground to show his best".
As Cumani had suggested, Alkaased returned to France in September and started odds-on favourite of the Prix Foy at
Longchamp, a major trial race for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Ridden by
Kieren Fallon
Kieren Francis Fallon (born 22 February 1965 in Crusheen, County Clare, Ireland) is a retired Irish professional flat racing jockey and was British Champion Jockey six times.
Career
Stable jockey to Henry Cecil
In ...
, he was held up as usual before making his challenge in the straight. He moved into second place 300 metres from the finish but was unable to make further progress and was beaten two and a half lengths by the mare
Pride
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, with the German-bred
Shirocco
Shirocco (foaled 10 April 2001) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in his native Germany by Andreas Schütz up to the end of his three-year-old season before moving to French trainer André Fabre to race as a four and five ye ...
in third. Alkaased was brought back in distance for the
Champion Stakes
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over ten furlongs at Newmarket and finished fifth of fifteen runners behind
David Junior, Pride,
Maraahel and
Oratorio
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. The unplaced horses included
Rakti
Rakti (10 February 1999 – December 2010) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse, who won six Group One races in Italy (where he was originally trained) and the United Kingdom in a career which lasted from 2001 to 2005.
Background
Rakti was ...
,
Chic
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and
Alexander Goldrun
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.
On 27 November, Alkaased was one of eighteen horses to contest the twenty-fifth running of the Japan Cup at
Tokyo Racecourse
is located in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1933 for horse racing, it is considered the "racecourse of racecourses" in Japanese horseracing. It has a capacity of 223,000, with seating for 13,750.
Tokyo Racecourse hosts numerous G1 (Grade 1) r ...
. The other European runners included
Ouija Board
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, Bago and Warrsan, whilst North America was represented the
Breeders' Cup Turf
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winner
Better Talk Now
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and the
Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap
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winner
King's Drama. The locally trained runners included the last two winners of the race
Tap Dance City
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and
Zenno Rob Roy
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, the
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winners Heavenly Romance and Suzuka Mambo as well as the
NAR champion Cosmo Bulk. Ridden by Dettori he started the 9.6/1 third choice in the betting for a race run on unusually firm ground. Alkaased lost ground at the start as Dettori, on instructions from Cumani, tracked across from a wide draw to race on the inside.
He raced in twelfth place before moving up to fifth place on the turn into the straight. Tap Dance City attempted to make all the running, as he had done in 2003 and was still four lengths clear with 400 metres to run but was overtaken by Alkaased and Zenno Rob Roy 200 metres from the finish. Alkaased gained the advantage and held off the late challenge of Heart's Cry on the inside to win by a nose, with Zenno Rob Roy one and three quarter lengths back in third ahead of Lincoln and Ouija Board. The winning time of 2:22.1 was a new world record for 2400 metres on turf, bettering the mark set by
Horlicks
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in the 1989 running of the race.
Dettori, who was winning the race for the third time said; "Alkaased is a great horse to ride. He can be lazy but he's a very tenacious, tough horse – he kept finding a little more". Mike Charlton admitted that when he bought the horse he had regarded him as just a good handicapper, saying; "I did think he would improve, but this was a million-to-one shot".
Stud record
After his win in the Japan Cup, Alkaased was sold for a reported $7.4 million and stood as a breeding stallion
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's
Darley Stud
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at an initial fee of $20,700. In 2012, Alkaased returned to Europe and has been based since then at the Kelanne Stud in
Hampshire
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, standing at a fee of £1,500 in 2014.
Pedigree
*Alkaased was
inbred
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4 x 4 to Northern Dancer, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
References
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Japan Cup winners
Thoroughbred family 10-c