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The Brigadier Gerard Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile 1 furlong and 209 yards (2,002 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May or early June.
Brigadier Gerard began his career as a two-year-old on 24 June 1970, in the Berkshire Stakes at Newbury. The race was run on good ground over five furlongs and attracted a field of five runners including three previous winners. Brigadier Gerard was ridden by Joe Mercer and was relatively unfancied at odds of 100/7.
Brigadier Gerard Stakes: Sandown: 1m 1f 209y: 4yo+ Royal Rhyme May: Brontë Cup: York: 1m 5f 188y: 4yo+ f Term Of Endearment May / June: Princess Elizabeth Stakes: Epsom: 1m 113y: 3yo+ f Breege May / June: Diomed Stakes: Epsom: 1m 113y: 3yo+ Royal Scotsman May / June: Lester Piggott Stakes [b] Haydock: 1m 3f 175y: 4yo+ f Queen Of The Pride May ...
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 (1,609 metres), 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 ...
Brigadier Gerard Stakes: Turf 2,010 I 14: 124 Drosselmeyer (USA) 4 C USA 1st Breeders' Cup Classic: Dirt 2,000 I 14: 124 Goldikova (IRE) 6 M FR 2nd Queen Anne Stakes: Turf 1,600 M 14: 124 St Nicholas Abbey (IRE) 4 C IRE 1st Breeders' Cup Turf: Turf 2,400 L 17: 123 Acclamation (USA) 5 H USA 1st Eddie Read Stakes: Turf 1,800 M 17: 123 Americain ...
On his first appearance as a four-year-old, Giacometti contested the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown in May and was beaten half a length by Rymer in a slowly-run race. In June at Royal Ascot he started favourite for the Prince of Wales's Stakes, but was beaten into third place behind Record Run and Swell Fellow. He did not race again and was ...
In 2020, he won the Land O'Burns Fillies' Stakes and was second in another Nunthorpe on Que Amora, losing out to Battaash, and across 2020 and 2021 he won three Group 3s including the Brigadier Gerard Stakes on the Jim Goldie-trained Euchen Glen. Azure Blue, another Michael Dods horse, gave him Listed and Group 2 success in 2023.
The two-year-old won the Mill Reef Stakes in 1:11.79 at the Newbury Racecourse which is 6 furlongs and 8 yards (1,214 m) in distance. The 1 mile 2 furlongs and 7 yards (2,018 m) at Sandown Park was completed in 2:08.69 by Border Arrow. This six-year-old won the 2001 Brigadier Gerard Stakes under the guidance of Ian Balding and jockey Frankie ...