Be My Guest (12 April 1974 – 19 February 2004)
American Classic Pedigrees, 8 November 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2022 was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred

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and champion sire in Britain. He was bred in Kentucky by

Walter Haefner Walter Haefner (13 September 1910 – 19 June 2012) was a Swiss businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder in Ireland. As a young man Haefner went to work in the auto industry as an employee of the Swiss division of General Mo ...

, a

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businessman and owner of

Moyglare Stud Farm Walter Haefner (13 September 1910 – 19 June 2012) was a Swiss businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder in Ireland. As a young man Haefner went to work in the auto industry as an employee of the Swiss division of General Mo ...

in Ireland. Sired by the great Northern Dancer, his dam was

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, the 1965 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and a daughter of the 1947

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winner, Tudor Minstrel. Be My Guest was sold at the 1975 Goff

yearling sale for a then British and European record price of 127,000 guineas. His new owner,

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, was the daughter of Frederick Guest and his wife

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of the American Phipps family who have been major long-time figures in thoroughbred racing in the United States.

Progeny

Be My Guest was a very good miler who won three

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at age three in 1977 under trainer Vincent O'Brien. These victories included the

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. He is also remembered as one of the foundation sires responsible for turning Ireland's Coolmore Stud into one of the most important Thoroughbred breeders in the world

Syndicated for £800,000, during his career at stud Be My Guest sired 78 stakes winners who were able to win at various distances. He was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1982. In addition, Be My Guest's daughters produced more than 90 stakes winners. Some of his notable progeny were: Sire: * Assert (b. 1979) - won four Group One races at age three including the Irish and French Derbys; * On the House (b. 1979) - won the 1982 G1 Classic, the

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, and the G1 Sussex Stakes; * Luth Enchantee (b. 1980) - a filly who beat her male counterparts in winning the Group Ones Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and

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; * Go and Go (b. 1987) - won the

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, the third and longest leg of the

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series; *

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(b. 1992) - multiple conditions race winner including the 1995 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes, and

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. Damsire: *

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(1999) - won a world record seven consecutive

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races *

Manduro Manduro (March 9, 2002 – June 27, 2020) was a World Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a multiple Group One winner in Germany. Background Sired by Monsun, he was out of the mare Mandellicht, a daughter of Northern Dancer's son Be My Gu ...

(b. 2002) - No. 1 ranked horse in the World in 2007 Pensioned after the 2002 breeding seaso

Be My Guest died on 19 February 2004 at the age of thirty.

Pedigree

References

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Be My Guest's pedigree and partial racing stats

February 24, 2004 Bloodhorse.com article titled ''Be My Guest, Sired 78 Stakes Winners, Dead at Age 30''
1974 racehorse births 2004 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in Ireland British Champion Thoroughbred Sires Phipps family Thoroughbred family 8-c