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Good Bond, a long way behind Brigadier Gerard in the 2000 Guineas and Ballyhot, a maiden winner completed the four runner field. Brigadier Gerard started at odds of 4/11. In the prevailing conditions the visibility was poor. Sparkler made the running until the two furlong marker where Joe Mercer brought Brigadier Gerard to challenge.
William Richard Hern CVO CBE (20 January 1921 – 22 May 2002) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and winner of sixteen British Classic Races between 1962 and 1995, and was Champion Trainer on four occasions.
The 2000 Guineas itself can act as a trial for the Derby, and the last horse to win both was Camelot in 2012. The most recent 2000 Guineas participant to win the Derby was City Of Troy, placed ninth in 2024. Since 2001, the 2000 Guineas and the 1000 Guineas Stakes have offered equal prize money. Each had a purse of £523,750 in 2019.
Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest ...
Grundy's 1975 rating was the sixth-highest rating ever given to a British three-year-old colt up to that time, behind Tudor Minstrel, Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Pappa Fourway and Abernant. [ 16 ] Grundy's earnings of £326,421 broke the record [ 14 ] for a horse trained in Britain or Ireland which had previously been held by Mill Reef.
The 206th running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes has claim to the strongest 2000 Guineas field in history, in terms of quality in depth. In surpasses the 2008 running, which included the first two home in that seasons Breeders' Cup Classic and Group 1 winners: Henrythenavigator (2000 Guineas Stakes, Irish 2,000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes), New Approach (National Stakes ...
[1] [16] In 1999, The Independent described Dancing Brave as "the greatest British Flat champion of the last quarter of a century". [5] Dancing Brave was voted the official British Horse of the Year in 1986 by the Racegoers' Club. By taking all 27 votes in the poll he was the first horse to be unanimously elected since Brigadier Gerard in 1971. [1]
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