Bigstone
| Bigstone | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Last Tycoon |
| Grandsire | Try My Best |
| Dam | Batave |
| Damsire | Posse |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | February 8, 1990 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dayton Ltd |
| Owner | Daniel Wildenstein |
| Trainer | Elie Lellouche |
| Record | 14:5-3-2 |
| Earnings | £578,226 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix Omnium (1993) Sussex Stakes (1993) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1993) Prix d'Ispahan (1994) Prix de la Foret (1994) |
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Bigstone (foaled February 8, 1990) was an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. As a three-year-old he became the only French-trained horse to win both of Britain's most important all-aged mile races, the Sussex Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Unraced as a two-year-old, Bigstone raced fourteen times, winning five times in a racing career which lasted from March 1993 until November 1994. After his successes in England in 1993 he added two more Group One races in France as a four-year-old, winning the Prix d'Ispahan and the Prix de la Foret. He was then retired to stud where he had mixed success as a sire of winners.
Bigstone was a bay horse with a white star bred in Ireland by Dayton Ltd, a breeding operation owned by Daniel Wildenstein. He was sired by Last Tycoon, an Irish-bred, French-trained horse who won the King's Stand Stakes, Nunthorpe Stakes and Breeders' Cup Mile in 1986. At stud, he also sired Ezzoud, Marju and Lady Of Chad (Prix Marcel Boussac). His dam Batave, was a good sprinter who finished second to Last Tycoon in the Prix de Saint-Georges, and was a granddaughter of the 1000 Guineas and Oaks Stakes winner Sweet Solera.
Bigstone made a winning racecourse debut in the Listed Prix Omnium over 1600 metres at Saint-Cloud on 30 March. A month later he was moved up in class and distance for the Group Two Prix Greffulhe over 2100 metres at Longchamp Racecourse. Ridden by Dominique Boeuf, he finished second to the Andre Fabre-trained Hunting Hawk. He was then moved up to Group One class and sustained two narrow defeats: he was beaten a neck by Le Balafre when favourite for the Prix Jean Prat and finished second by a nose by Fort Wood in the Grand Prix de Paris.
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