Annie Power

Annie Power
Annie Power at Fairyhouse in March 2013.
Sire	Shirocco
Grandsire	Monsun
Dam	Anno Luce
Damsire	Old Vic
Sex	Mare
Foaled	20 March 2008
Country	Ireland
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Eamon Cleary
Owner	Eamon Cleary Susannah Ricci
Trainer	Jim Bolger Willie Mullins
Record	17:15-1-0
Earnings	£715,232
Major wins
Johnstown Novice Hurdle (2013) Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final (2013) Ascot Hurdle (2013) Doncaster Mares' Hurdle (2014) Mares Champion Hurdle (2014, 2015) Champion Hurdle (2016) Aintree Hurdle (2016)

Annie Power (foaled 20 March 2008) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. A National Hunt horse specialising in hurdle racing she has won fourteen of her sixteen races including the Johnstown Novice Hurdle, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle, Ascot Hurdle, Doncaster Mares' Hurdle and Mares Champion Hurdle. In 2016 she became the first mare for twenty two years to win the Champion Hurdle.

Annie Power is a chestnut mare with a narrow white blaze bred in Ireland by Eamon Cleary. She was sired by the German stallion Shirocco, whose wins included the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2005. As a breeding stallion he has sired the Goodwood Cup winner Brown Panther and several good National Hunt horses. Annie Power's dam Anno Luce was a high-class racemare, winning at Group Three level in Germany in 1996. The filly was sent into training with the leading Flat trainer Jim Bolger.

Annie Power began her racing career in National Hunt Flat races (also known as "bumpers") in the late summer of 2012. On 4 August at Galway Racecourse she was ridden by the amateur jockey Patrick Mullins and defeated nine opponents at odds of 9/20. Three weeks later at Wexford Racecourse she started 6/4 favourite for a mares' race and won by fifteen lengths from Ourbeautifuldream. Following this race the mare was sold to Rich and Susannah Ricci and moved to the stable of Willie Mullins (the father of Patrick) in County Carlow. On her first appearance for her new connections, Annie Power contested a bumper at Listowel Racecourse in which only one horse, a gelding named Vintage Supreme appeared to oppose her. The mare started at odds of 1/10 and led from the start before winning by sixty-one lengths.