Aristotle (horse)

Aristotle
Sire	Sadler's Wells
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Flamenco Wave
Damsire	Desert Wine
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	18 February 1997
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Orpendale
Owner	Sue Magnier Eres Tu, Glenlogan & Jacobsen
Trainer	Aidan O'Brien Malcolm Thwaites
Record	12: 4-1-2
Earnings	£290,271
Major wins
Racing Post Trophy (1999) Prix Greffulhe (2000, disqualified)

Aristotle (also known as Our Aristotle, foaled 18 February 1997) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed great promise as a two-year-old in 1999, winning a maiden race on his debut and then taking the Group One Racing Post Trophy. In an abbreviated second season he was disqualified after winning the Prix Greffulhe and ran poorly when strongly fancied for the Epsom Derby. He was then sold and exported to Singapore where he won twice and finished second in the Singapore Derby. He retired with a record of four wins from twelve starts in five different countries. He stood as a breeding stallion in Australia before moving to Ireland in 2009.

Aristotle was a bay horse with a large white star and four white socks bred in Ireland by Orpendale, a breeding company associated with John Magnier's Coolmore Stud. He was from the twelfth crop of foals sired by Sadler's Wells, who won the Irish 2000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes in 1984 went on to be the Champion sire on fourteen occasions.

Aristotle's dam Flamenco Wave was a lightly-raced but high-class racehorse who won the Moyglare Stud Stakes in 1988. She was even better as a broodmare, producing several other winners including Starborough and Ballingarry. Her unraced daughter Leaping Water became the dam of St Nicholas Abbey. Flamenco Wave was one of many good horses descended from the American broodmare Fleet Flight: others have included Almutawakel and White Muzzle.

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