Airborne (horse)
| Airborne | |
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circa 1947
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| Sire | Precipitation |
| Grandsire | Hurry On |
| Dam | Bouquet |
| Damsire | Buchan |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1943 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Grey |
| Breeder | Harold Boyd-Rochfort |
| Owner | John Ferguson |
| Trainer | Richard Perryman |
| Record | 11: 4½-0-2 |
| Earnings | £20,345¾ |
| Major wins | |
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Epsom Derby (1946) Princess of Wales's Stakes (1946) St Leger (1946) |
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| Last updated on 13 November 2011 | |
Airborne (1943–11 September 1962) was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After showing little worthwhile form as a two-year-old, Airborne improved to become one of the leading three-year-olds in Britain in 1946. He won five successive races including two Classics: the Derby at Epsom and the St Leger at Doncaster. He was the most recent of four greys to have won the Epsom Classic. Airborne went on to have a stud career of limited success.
Airborne was a tall, rangy grey horse bred at Castletown Geoghegan, County Westmeath, in Ireland by Harold Boyd-Rochfort, the brother of the successful trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort. As a yearling he was sent to the sales where he was bought for 3,900 guineas by the British plastics manufacturer and racehorse-breeder John Ferguson. Ferguson sent the colt to be trained by the former jockey Richard “Dick” Perryman at his Beaufort House stables at Newmarket, Suffolk.
Airborne’s sire Precipitation was a top-class racehorse, best known for winning the Ascot Gold Cup in 1937. He went on to become a successful stallion, siring three other Classic winners in Why Hurry (Epsom Oaks), Premonition (St Leger) and Chamossaire (St Leger). Precipitation himself was sired by the unbeaten champion, Hurry On, making him a representative of the Godolphin Arabian sire line. Airborne’s dam, Bouquet, from whom he inherited his grey colour, never ran in a race, but produced nine winners, the best of them, apart from Airborne, being a sprinter named Fragrant View.
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