Horse wrise and shine pedigree7/22/2023 ![]() On his last start of the year he was moved up to Listed class, and finished last of the three starters in the Stardom Stakes at Goodwood.įantastic Light began his three-year-old season with his first Group race win in the Sandown Classic Trial. This performance attracted some attention, with one commentator identifying him as "a promising young stayer". He followed up in a similar event at the same course three weeks later, beating Aesops by three quarters of a length after leading close to the finish. He started slowly and showed his inexperience ("ran green") before taking the lead in the closing stages and winning by one and three quarter lengths from Sicnee, with the future Diadem Stakes winner, Sampower Star in third. Racing career 1998: two-year-old season įantastic Light never ran in a maiden race, instead making his debut against more experienced colts in a minor stakes race at Sandown in August 1998. His ownership was then transferred to Godolphin Racing, and he was trained from that point on by Saeed bin Suroor. Until early 2000, Fantastic Light raced in the colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum and was trained by Michael Stoute at Newmarket, Suffolk. Fantastic Light's dam, Jood, a daughter of Nijinsky, failed to win a race, but came from a good family, being closely related to Swain. Apart from Fantastic Light, his best progeny have included Noverre, Serena's Song and Hawksley Hill. His sire, Rahy (1985–2011), sired the winners of over three hundred races, including more than thirty at Group One/ Grade I level. In his championship season in 2001 Fantastic Light won four of his six races the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the Irish Champion Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Turf.įantastic Light, a bay horse with an irregular white blaze and three white feet, was bred in Kentucky by Maktoum Al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud. In 2000 after his transfer to Godolphin he won the Man o' War Stakes and the Hong Kong Cup. In his early racing career, when trained by Michael Stoute, he won the Sandown Classic Trial, the Great Voltigeur Stakes, the Arc Trial and the Dubai Sheema Classic. In August 2012 it was announced that he had been pensioned from stallion duty while in Japan and would return to Dalham Hall in England to live out his days as a pensioner. He was also well known for his two races against the 2001 Epsom Derby winner Galileo. He was named United States Champion Male Turf Horse, European Horse of the Year and European Champion Older Horse in 2001. He raced in seven countries, winning Group One/ Grade I races in five of them and was a dual winner of the Emirates World Series Racing Championship. He was foaled in the United States but was trained in England and Dubai during his racing career, which ran from August 1998 to his retirement following the Breeders' Cup Turf in October 2001. United States Champion Male Turf Horse (2001)Įmirates World Series Racing Champion (2000, 2001)įantastic Light (foaled February 13, 1996) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and pensioned sire.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |