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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.
The Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown is named in his honour. In the 1972 British Horse of the Year poll conducted by the Racegoers' Club, Brigadier Gerard polled all forty of the available votes, making him the first horse to be unanimously elected to the honour. [23]
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: 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 ...
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 ...
Brigadier Gerard Stakes (2000) Shiva (born 22 April 1995) was a Japanese-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . In a racing career which was delayed and repeatedly interrupted by training problems she won four of her ten races between May 1998 and October 2000.
After winning Brigadier Gerard Stakes in spring she showed outstanding form at Royal Ascot, winning the Prince of Wales's Stakes and then breaking the track record when taking the Hardwicke Stakes. In autumn she won the Joe McGrath Memorial Stakes in Ireland before becoming the first horse trained in Europe to win the Japan Cup. She was retired ...
In 1957 the licence at Blewbury was passed from Charles Jerdein to Helen Johnson Houghton's twenty-three-year-old cousin, Peter Walwyn. Gilles de Retz began his third season at Sandown Park Racecourse where he contested the Coronation Stakes, a race now known as the Brigadier Gerard Stakes. Ridden by Barlow, the colt won easily at odds of 100/6 ...