Nations Pride (foaled 28 April 2019) is a multiple

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winning Irish-bred British-trained

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. As a three-year-old in 2022 he was victorious in three countries, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and United States. In 2023 he won in the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Canada.

Background

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. He was from the eleventh crop of foals sired by Teofilo, who was undefeated champion as a two-year-old. At stud, Teofilo has been a highly successful breeding stallion, shuttling to Australia, siring major winners such as Exultant in Hong Kong, Happy Clapper, Humidor and the sire of two

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winners,

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and

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in Australia. Nations Pride became Teofilo's 23rd top-level winner. Teofilo stood at Kildangan Stud for €30,000 in Ireland in 2021. Nations Pride's dam Important Time raced twelve times and won three times with her most important victory in the Listed Stutenpreis des Gestuts Winterhauch over 1850 metres (~1 mile 1 furlong 43 yards) at

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in Germany. In the United States, Nations Pride captured two legs of the

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Turf Trinity, the

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Saratoga Derby and the Grade III Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes and was second in the

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Statistics

''Legend:''

''Notes:''
An (*) asterisk after the odds means Nations Pride was the post-time favourite.

Pedigree

*Nations Pride is

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4s × 4d to Danzig.

References

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