Ask (horse)

Ask
Sire	Sadler's Wells
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Request
Damsire	Rainbow Quest
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	23 March 2003
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Side Hill Stud
Owner	Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire Duke of Devonshire & Susan Magnier Patrick J Fahey
Trainer	Michael Stoute
Record	19:7-3-2
Earnings	£812,084
Major wins
Ormonde Stakes (2007) Cumberland Lodge Stakes (2007) Gordon Richards Stakes (2008) Yorkshire Cup (2009) Coronation Cup (2009) Prix Royal Oak (2009)

Ask (foaled 23 March 2003) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Unraced as a two-year-old, he showed some promise as a three-year-old in 2006, winning one minor race and finishing fourth in the St Leger. He improved in the following year despite running only three races: he won the Ormonde Stakes and the Cumberland Lodge Stakes and was narrowly beaten in the Canadian International Stakes. He won the Gordon Richards Stakes in 2008 but reached his peak as a six-year-old in the following year, winning the Yorkshire Cup, Coronation Cup and Prix Royal Oak as well as finishing third in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. After a single, unsuccessful start in 2010 his racing career was ended by injury. He was then retired to become a National Hunt stallion in Ireland.

Ask is a bay horse with a white star and snip bred at the Side Hill Stud in Newmarket by his owner the 11th Duke of Devonshire. He was one of the eighteenth 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. Ask's dam Request, who failed to win in two races, was owned and bred by Queen Elizabeth II. She was a granddaughter of the Queen's outstanding racemare Highclere, who won the 1000 Guineas and the Prix de Diane in 1974 and whose other descendant include Nashwan, Unfuwain and Deep Impact.