Bob's Return

Bob's Return
Sire	Bob Back
Grandsire	Roberto
Dam	Quality of Life
Damsire	Auction Ring
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	5 March 1990
Country	Ireland
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Baronrath Stud
Owner	Mrs G A E Smith
Trainer	Mark Tompkins
Record	15: 5-2-0
Earnings	£537,884
Major wins
Zetland Stakes (1992) Lingfield Derby Trial (1993) Great Voltigeur Stakes (1993) St. Leger Stakes (1993)

Bob's Return (1990–2008), was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from June 1992 until September 1994, he ran fifteen times and won five races. He recorded his most important success when winning the Classic St. Leger Stakes as a three-year-old in 1993, the same year in which he won the Lingfield Derby Trial and the Great Voltigeur Stakes. In the following season he failed to win in six races, although he finished second in the Eclipse Stakes. He later had some success as a sire of National Hunt winners.

Bob's Return was a dark brown horse with a small white star bred by the Baronrath stud at Straffan in County Kildare. In colouring and markings, he closely resembled his sire Bob Back, who defeated Pebbles at Royal Ascot in 1985, and was a successful sire of both flat racers and jumpers. Bob's Return was the first foal of his dam, Quality of Life, and was described as being "unfashionably bred". He was sent as a yearling to the Goffs sales in October 1991, where he was bought for IR£14,500 by Mark Tompkins who trained him at his Flint Cottage stables. The colt was bought by Mr G. A. E. Smith and given as a present to wis wife Jackie, in whose colours he ran during his racing career. Bob's Return, who usually raced in a sheepskin noseband, was ridden in every one of his fifteen races by Philip Robinson.

Bob's Return made his racecourse debut in a five furlong maiden race at Beverley in June 1992 in which he finished fourth behind Rock Symphony. He missed the next three months before starting 9/4 favourite for a maiden race at Yarmouth. He finished fourth of the sixteen runners behind Racing Telegraph. In October, Bob's Return was sent to Pontefract and recorded his first victory, winning by a length from Brown's and nineteen others. On his final race of the season, Bob's Return was moved up in class and sent to Newmarket to contest the Listed Zetland Stakes. He led from the start and won by three quarters of a length from Bobbie Dee.

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