Caracolero
| Caracolero | |
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| Sire | Graustark |
| Grandsire | Ribot |
| Dam | Betty Loraine |
| Damsire | Prince John |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1971 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Leslie Combs II |
| Owner | María Félix-Berger |
| Trainer | Francois Boutin |
| Record | 7:4-1-1 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix Barneveldt (1974) Prix Matchem (1974) Prix du Jockey-Club (1974) |
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| Awards | |
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Timeform top-rated three-year-old (1974) Top-rated French three-year-old colt (1974) Timeform rating 131 (1974) |
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Caracolero (1971 – after 1987) was a Kentucky-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed some promise as a two-year-old in 1973, winning one of his three races, but was rated well behind the best of his year in France. In the following year he won the Prix Barneveldt and the Prix Matchem before establishing himself as one of the best European colts of his generation with an upset win in the Prix du Jockey-Club. He was injured in his only subsequent race and was retired to stud, where he had little success as a sire of winners.
Caracolero was a chestnut horse with a white star and short white socks on his left feet bred in Kentucky by Leslie Combs II. His sire Graustark had a brief but promising racing career before becoming a very successful breeding stallion whose progeny included Prove Out, Key To The Mint, Avatar and Jim French. Caracolero's dam Betty Lorraine went on to produce Betty's Secret, who in turn produced the Epsom Derby winner Secreto: her dam Gay Hostess also produced Majestic Prince, Crowned Prince (winner of Dewhurst Stakes) and Meadow Blue (grand-dam of Real Quiet). Gay Hostess was a granddaughter of the broodmare Boudoir, whose other descendants included Daiwa Major, Flower Bowl and Caracolero's sire Graustark.
As a yearling, Caracolero was offered for sale at the Keeneland and was bought for $75,000 by representatives of María Félix, a Mexican actress and wife of French financier Alex Berger. He was sent to Europe to be trained in France by Francois Boutin. Caracolero is the common Spanish name of the snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis).
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