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For the Irish saint, see Saint Patrick.
St. Paddy
Sire Aureole
Grandsire Hyperion
Dam Edie Kelly
Damsire Bois Roussel
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1957
Country Great Britain
Colour Bay
Breeder Sir Victor Sassoon
Owner Sir Victor Sassoon
Trainer Noel Murless
Record 14: 9-2-2
Earnings £97,193
Major wins
Royal Lodge Stakes (1959)
Dante Stakes (1960)
Great Voltigeur Stakes (1960)
Jockey Club Stakes (1961)
Eclipse Stakes (1961)
Hardwicke Stakes (1961) British Classic Race wins:
Epsom Derby (1960)
St. Leger Stakes (1960)
Honours
Deltic locomotive 55001 was named St. Paddy[1]
Last updated on 18 February 2010

St. Paddy (1957–1984) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. His performances in both 1960 and 1961 were instrumental in making his sire Aureole the Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland both years. St. Paddy was the winner of the 1960 Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes.

Background

Owned and bred by Sir Victor Sassoon, he was out of the mare Edie Kelly and sired by Aureole, a winner of the Coronation Cup and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Edie Kelly, who ran 14 times winning one small apprentice handicap, later produced Parmeila, a filly who won the Ribblesdale Stakes and the Park Hill Stakes in 1970.[2] St Paddy's grandsire, Hyperion, and his damsire, Bois Roussel, both won the Epsom Derby. St Paddy was bred and raised at his owner's Thornton Stud, Thornton-le-Street, North Yorkshire.[3]

Racing career

1959:two-year-old season

St Paddy finished unplaced on his debut in the Acomb Stakes at York in August. In September he won the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot.

1960:three-year-old season

On 27 April St Paddy finished unplaced behind Martial in the 2000 Guineas on his seasonal debut.[4] He then won the Dante Stakes at York in May.[5]

In the Derby on 1 June at Epsom he was ridden by Lester Piggott and started at odds of 7/1. The race was run in warm, sunny weather and attracted the customary huge crowd which included the Queen.[6] He was prominent from the start, took the lead three furlongs from the finish and was never in danger, winning easily by three lengths from Alcaeus with Kythnos third. The race was marred by a fatal injury sustained by the favourite Angers.[7]

He was narrowly beaten in the Gordon Stakes by Kipling, to whom he was conceding five pounds. he then won the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York in August.[8] In the St Leger at Doncaster in September he stated odds-on favourite against eight rivals and won easily by three lengths from Die Hard.[9]

1961: four-year-old season

St Paddy won the Coombe Stakes at Sandown, the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in July. In the Eclipse he led from the start and won impressively from Proud Chieftain, leading the Glasgow Herald to describe him as "the complete racehorse".[10] He started favourite for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot one week later but was beaten three lengths into second place by the Prix du Jockey Club winner Right Royal.

In Autumn, St Paddy won the Jockey Club Stakes, but was beaten in the Champion Stakes.[11] His defeat meant that he failed to break the record for prize money by a British-trained horse, his final total of $272,141 placing him second behind Ballymoss.[11] He was then retired to stud.

Stud Record

St. Paddy was retired after the 1961 racing season to stand at stud at Beech House Stud in Newmarket. As a sire, he met with reasonable success, notably siring Connaught, winner of the Eclipse Stakes and Jupiter Island, a multiple graded stakes race winner whose biggest success came in the 1986 Japan Cup.[12] St. Paddy was pensioned in 1981 and died in 1984 at the age of twenty-seven. He is buried at Beech House Stud.[13]

Assessment and Honours

Following the LNER tradition of naming locomotives after winning racehorses,[14] British Railways "Deltic" Diesel locomotive no. D9001 (later no. 55 001) was named St. Paddy after this horse on 7 July 1961,[1] and remained in service until 5 January 1980.[15]

In their book A Century of Champions, John Randall and Tony Morris rated St Paddy an “average” Derby winner and the one hundred and twenty-first best British racehorse of the 20th Century .[16]

Pedigree

Pedigree of St. Paddy[17]
Sire
Aureole		 Hyperion Gainsborough Bayardo
Rosedrop
Selene Chaucer
Serenissima
Angelola Donatello Blenheim II
Delleana
Feola Friar Marcus
Aloe
Dam
Edie Kelly		 Bois Roussel Vatout Prince Chimay
Vashti
Plucky Liege Spearmint
Concertina
Caerlissa Caerleon Phalaris
Canyon
Sister Sarah Abbots Trace
Sarita

References

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External links

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