Cadeaux Genereux

Cadeaux Genereux
Racing colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum
Sire	Young Generation
Grandsire	Balidar
Dam	Smarten Up
Damsire	Sharpen Up
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	22 March 1985
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Helen Kennard
Owner	Maktoum Al Maktoum
Trainer	Olivier Douieb Alex Scott
Record	15:7-1-3
Earnings	£293,453
Major wins
Van Geest Criterion Stakes (1988) Krug Diadem Stakes (1988) Carroll Foundation July Cup (1989) William Hill Sprint Championship (1989)
Awards
Timeform rating 131

Cadeaux Genereux (22 March 1985 – 18 November 2010) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter, he came to prominence in 1988 when he won five races including the Criterion Stakes and the Diadem Stakes and was disqualified after finishing first in the Prix de l'Abbaye. After two disappointing efforts early in 1989 he established himself as the best sprinter in Europe with wins in the July Cup and the William Hill Sprint Championship. He was then retired to stud where he had considerable success as a sire of winners.

Cadeaux Genereux was a chestnut horse with a small white star, bred at the Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire by Helen and Major Bobby Kennard. He was sired by Young Generation, a horse whose wins included the Prix Jean Prat and the Lockinge Stakes in 1979. His dam, Smarten Up was a high-class racemare who dead-heated for the Temple Stakes in 1978.

As a yearling, Cadeaux Genereux was sold to Maktoum Al Maktoum and sent into training with Olivier Douieb at Newmarket, Suffolk. He was ridden in most of his races by either Pat Eddery or his brother Paul

Having shown some promise as a two-year-old, finishing fourth and third in two starts Cadeaux Genereux began his second season with four consecutive victories. At Pontefract Racecourse in April he recorded his first success when he was ridden by Paul Eddery to a "facile" four length victory in a Graduation race (restricted to maidens and horses with one previous win) over five furlongs. Paul was again riding at Newmarket racecourse a month later, when Cadeaux Genereux won a handicap race by two and a half lengths. Pat Eddery took over the ride at York in June, when Cadeaux Genereux started 4/5 for the Golden Spurs Trophy and won by half a length from Siver Fling, a three-year-old filly who was carrying fourteen pounds more than the winner. Two weeks later, the colt was moved up in class to contest the Group Three Criterion Stakes at Newmarket. Pat Eddery restrained the colt in the early stages of the seven furlong contest before taking the lead in the final furlong. Cadeaux Genereux held off the late rally of the Henry Cecil-trained favourite Salse to win by a short head.