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Kris (horse)
Kris (1976–2004) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 1978 he was unbeaten in four races, including the Horris Hill Stakes, but was rated some way below the best of his generation. In the following year he won the Greenham Stakes on his debut before being defeated by half a length by Tap On Wood when favourite for the classic 2000 Guineas. He went on to dominate British racing over one mile for the rest of 1979, winning the Heron Stakes, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, Waterford Crystal Mile, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Challenge Stakes, earning comparisons with Brigadier Gerard. As a four-year-old he won the Lockinge Stakes but was off the course with injury problems for much of the season and was narrowly beaten by Known Fact when attempting to repeat his previous win in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He retired from racing with a record of fourteen wins and two second places from sixteen starts. Kris went on to become a very successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharpen Up
Sharpen Up (17 March 1969 – 2 March 1992) was a British racehorse and sire (horse), sire. He was one of the leading European two-year-olds of his generation, winning all five of his races including the Seaton Delaval Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes. He failed to win in three starts in 1972 and was retired to stud. He became a highly successful breeding stallion in both Europe and North America. Sharpen Up died in 1992. Background Sharpen Up was a chestnut horse standing 16.1 Hand (unit), hands high with a white blaze (horse marking), blaze and white sock (horse marking), socks on his hind legs bred and owned by Mimi van Cutsem. He was sired by the American stallion Atan, who was retired from racing after winning his only race. His dam, Rocchetta, was a full sister to Outcrop, the winner of the Yorkshire Oaks. Sharpen Up was trained throughout his racing career by Bernard van Cutsem at the Stanley House tables in Newmarket, Suffolk, Newmarket. Racing career 1971: two-year-ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds, horse breed developed for Thoroughbred racing, 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 considered "Hot-blooded horse, hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit. The Thoroughbred, as it is known today, was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were Crossbreed, crossbred with imported stallion (horse), stallions of Arabian horse, Arabian, Barb horse, Barb, and Turkoman horse, Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to a larger number of foundation bloodstock, foundation mares of mostly English breeding. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Thoroughbred breed spread throughout the world; they were imported into North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidium (horse)
A presidium or praesidium is a council of executive officers in some countries' political deliberative assembly, assemblies that collectively administers its business, either alongside an individual President (government title), president or in place of one. The term is also sometimes used for the governing body of European #Non-state organisations, non-state organisations. Communist usage In Communist states the presidium is the permanent committee of the legislative body. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet existed after 1936, when the Supreme Soviet of the USSR supplanted the Congress of Soviets of the USSR, as a replacement for the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Central Executive Committee which was headed by "the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets of the USSR, Presidium of the Central Executive Committee". In its place was the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet alone, no Central Executive Committee, and from 1938 to 1989, the Chairm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keen (horse)
Keen, Keen's, or Keens may refer to: People *Keen (surname) *Thomas Keens (1870-1953), British politician Music and song * "Keen" (song), a single by That Petrol Emotion * Keen Records, American record label *Keening, traditional Irish lament Companies * Keen (shoe company), United States manufacturing company * Keen's, Australian food brand * Keen Engineering, Canadian consulting engineering firm * Keens Steakhouse, a restaurant in New York City Video games * "Keening", tool in video game '' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'' * ''Commander Keen'', a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s Other uses * KEEN-CD, a low-power television station (channel 17) licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States * KZSF, former call sign KEEN, a radio station licensed to San Jose, California, United States * Dillant–Hopkins Airport, ICAO code as KEEN, near Keene, New Hampshire, United States See also * Keene (other) * Kene * Keane (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diesis (horse)
Diesis (23 April 1980 – 18 November 2006) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire (horse), sire. An outstanding two-year-old in 1982, he did not reach the same heights at three but went on to become an extremely successful breeding stallion in the United States. Background Diesis was a chestnut horse with a white star (horse marking), star and three white sock (horse marking), socks bred in England by his owner, John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, Lord Howard de Walden. He was sired by Sharpen Up out of the noted broodmare Doubly Sure, making him a full brother to the champion miler Kris (horse), Kris and Keen (horse), Keen, and a half-brother to several other good winners including Presidium (horse), Presidium and Rudimentary (horse), Rudimentary (Sandown Mile). The colt was named after the Dagger (typography), printer's symbol "‡" also known as a "double dagger". He was trained by Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. Racing career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sock (horse Marking)
Markings on horses are usually distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base coat color. Most horses have some markings, and they help to identify the horse as a unique individual. Markings are present at birth and do not change over the course of the horse's life. Most markings have pink skin underneath most of the white hairs, though a few faint markings may occasionally have white hair with no underlying pink skin. Markings may appear to change slightly when a horse grows or sheds its winter coat, however this difference is simply a factor of hair coat length; the underlying pattern does not change. On a gray horse, markings visible at birth may become hidden as the horse turns white with age, but markings can still be determined by trimming the horse's hair closely, then wetting down the coat to see where there is pink skin and black skin under the hair. Recent studies have examined the genetics behind white markings and have located certain genetic loci that influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unite (horse)
Unite (3 April 1984 – July 1995) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning The Oaks in 1987. She finished second in her only race as a two-year-old and won a minor race in the spring of 1987 before winning the Oaks. She followed up with an easy win in the Irish Oaks but was retired from racing after running poorly in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. She had some success as a broodmare. Background Unite was a "rangy, rather angular" chestnut mare with white socks on her hind feet bred by Edmund Loder at the family's Eyresfield Stud near the Curragh in County Kildare. She was the second of two classic winners, following the Triple Crown winner Oh So Sharp, sired by Kris the leading British miler of 1979. Unite's dam Pro Patria was a granddaughter of My Game, whose other descendants included Marling, Marwell and the Ascot Gold Cup winner Paean. As a yearling, Unite was sent to the Highflyer Yearling Sale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh So Sharp
Oh So Sharp (1982–2001) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the English Fillies' Triple Crown in 1985. In a racing career which lasted from August 1984 until September 1985, she won seven of her nine races, starting favourite on each occasion and never at odds of more than 2/1. She was one of the leading two-year-old fillies of 1984 when she was unbeaten in three races, including the Fillies' Mile. In the following year Oh So Sharp won the 1000 Guineas in record time and then took the Oaks by six lengths before being narrowly beaten in her next two starts in major weight-for-age races. The filly completed the Triple Crown in the St Leger Stakes. She was retired at the end of the season and became a successful broodmare. Oh So Sharp died in 2001 at the age of nineteen. Background Oh So Sharp, described by Timeform as "a big, lengthy filly and a grand mover with a raking stride" was bred in Ireland by her owner Sheikh Mohamme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Known Fact
Known Fact (17 March 1977 – 12 July 2000) was a Kentucky-bred, British-trained racehorse and sire. He was the leading British miler of 1980, being awarded the 2000 Guineas on the disqualification of Nureyev (horse), Nureyev and defeating Kris (horse), Kris to win the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Background Known Fact was by sire of sires In Reality and out of a Tim Tam (horse), Tim Tam mare named Tamerett who also produced Secrettame, the dam of the champion sire Gone West. Known Fact also has a half-brother, Tentam, who won many notable US stakes like the United Nations Stakes and the Metropolitan Handicap. Race career Known Fact excelled on English turf despite being out of American dirt horses. He started his two-year-old season with a second place in the Mill Reef Stakes and a win in the Middle Park Stakes, William Hill Middle Park Stakes. He then moved into his three-year-old year with strong wins the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigadier Gerard (horse)
Brigadier Gerard (5 March 1968 – 29 October 1989) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from June 1970 until October 1972, he won seventeen of his eighteen races. The colt is rated the best racehorse trained in Britain in the 20th century. Brigadier Gerard was unbeaten as a two-year-old in 1970, when his most important win came in the Middle Park Stakes. At three he was again unbeaten, defeating Mill Reef in a famous race for the 2000 Guineas and going on to win the St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, Goodwood Mile and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over a mile, before moving up in distance to win the Champion Stakes over ten furlongs. As a four-year-old he won the Lockinge Stakes, Prince of Wales's Stakes and Eclipse Stakes before moving up in distance to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over miles. Brigadier Gerard sustained his only defeat when beaten by Roberto in the inaugural running of the Benson and Hedges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heron Stakes
The Heron Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile (), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May. The event was formerly held at Kempton Park. It was staged at Goodwood in 2005 and 2006, and transferred to Sandown Park in 2007. The Heron Stakes is usually part of a fixture called the Brigadier Gerard Evening which also features the Brigadier Gerard Stakes and the Henry II Stakes. The Heron Stakes was held at a separate meeting a week before Brigadier Gerard Evening in 2021. Records Leading jockey (5 wins): * Frankie Dettori – ''Lord Florey (1990), Proclamation (2005), Cogito (2012), Without Parole (2018), King of Comedy (2019)'' Leading trainer (10 wins): * Sir Michael Stoute – ''Dalsaan (1980), Spark of Life (1981), Diaglyphard (1985), Neshad (1987), Magical Strike (1989), Among Men (1997), Kalaman (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Guineas
The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1.6 km) and scheduled to take place each year at the start of May. It is one of Britain's five Classic races, and at present it is the first to be run in the year. It also serves as the opening leg of the Triple Crown, followed by the Derby and the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three has been rarely attempted in recent decades. History The 2000 Guineas Stakes was first run on 18 April 1809, and it preceded the introduction of a version for fillies only, the 1000 Guineas Stakes, by five years. Both races were established by the Jockey Club under the direction of Sir Charles Bunbury, who had earlier co-founded the Derby at Epsom. The races were named according to their original prize fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
