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Brown 2023
16.0½ hh (1.63 m))
Pedigree
Wootton Bassett - April Showers (Galileo)
Distance won over
7f. to 1m.
Stands at
Castlehyde
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (2)
Puerto Rico (4)

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Dual Group 1-winning Champion 2YO


The best 2YO by Wootton Bassett, from an outstanding family of Champion 2YOs.

Defeated dual Gr.1 & Classic winner Rayif and Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes winner and Champion 2YO Gewan
Timeform rated 117 at 2. Rated higher than Bow Echo, Constitution River, Diamond Necklace, Precise, True Love, Gstaad, Zavateri, etc

Testimonials

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Aidan O’Brien
Trainer

“Wootton Bassett himself had tremendous speed, and this colt has just as much of it – he reminds me a lot of him. He’s a lovely, big, powerful, mature horse.”

Pedigree

Puerto RicoWOOTTON BASSETT (GB)APRIL SHOWERS (IRE)IFFRAAJ (GB)BALLADONIAGALILEO (IRE)BUTTERFLY COVE (USA)ZAFONIC (USA)PASTORALE (GB)PRIMO DOMINIESUSQUEHANNA DAYSSADLER'S WELLS (USA)URBAN SEA (USA)STORM CAT (USA)MR. P'S PRINCESS (USA)

Race Record

PRINCIPLE PERFORMANCES 

AT 2 YEARS 

Champion 2YO in France 

1st  Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Gr.1, 7f, ParisLongchamp, by 2½ lengths from Gr.2 Prix Paul de Moussac winner and 3-time Gr.1 placed Nighttime. 

1st  Critérium International, Gr.1, 8f, Saint-Cloud, by 1¾ lengths. 

1st Champagne Stakes, Gr.2, 7f, Doncaster, by 1 length from TDN Rising Star Oxagon. 

2nd   Railway Stakes, Gr.2, 6f, Curragh, to 3-time Gr.1 and Classic winner True Love, with Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes winner Power Blue behind in third. 

2nd  Richmond Stakes, Gr.2, 6f, Goodwood, to Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes winner Coppull. 

4th  Phoenix Stakes, Gr.1, 6f, Curragh, to Power Blue, 3-time Gr.1 and Classic winner True Love and Prix Robert Papin winner Green Sense. 

Never out of the first 4 in eight starts and 6 Group races at 2 

AT 3 YEARS 

3rd   Prix de la Foret, Gr.1, 7f, ParisLongchamp, to triple Gr.1 and Classic winner True Love. 

4th  Poule d’Essai des Poulains– Gr.1, 8f, ParisLongchamp, to dual Gr.1 winner Rayif. 

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