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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 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.
Vayrann was a brown horse with a large white star and a white coronet on his left hind foot [2] officially bred by his owner Aga Khan IV in Ireland. He was one of the best horses sired by Brigadier Gerard who won seventeen of his eighteen races between 1970 and 1972 and is rated the second-best British-trained racehorse since 1947 (after Frankel) by the independent Timeform organisation.
Brigadier Gerard finished officially 10 lengths ahead of the third horse, Gold Rod, which indicated that he had run up to his best form, however examination of the race film replay showed, and the Brigadier's owner, John Hislop, later acknowledged, that the distance between the second and third was in fact 17 lengths, indicating that Brigadier ...
Bret Hanover: one of only nine pacers to win the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers; had 62 wins from 69 starts; the only horse to be made Harness Horse of the Year three times; Brigadier Gerard: winner of 17 of 18 races in England, including the 2000 Guineas and 11 other Group I races; joint third highest Timeform flat rating of all time
Hern trained Brigadier Gerard who was only beaten once in eighteen races. Other major winners include Sun Princess , Dayjur , Hethersett , Bireme , Bustino , Longboat, Little Wolf , Petoski , Highclere , Provoke , Prince of Dance, Minster Son , Unfuwain , Dunfermline and Cut Above.
It was established in 1958, and originally open to horses aged three or older. The first edition was won by that year's 2000 Guineas Stakes winner Pall Mall. [1] The horse repeated his success as a four-year-old in 1959. [2] The present race grading system was introduced in 1971, and the Lockinge Stakes was given Group 2 status.
Both disappointed in their trial races and later, whilst Brigadier Gerard, without a prep race, won what would in hindsight be regarded as the best Two Thousand Guineas since 1947. A Sobell/Weinstock-owned colt, Homeric, won the Lingfield Derby Trial ridden by Mercer. Homeric was the stable's first Derby runner since 1968 when running at Epsom ...