Carotene (horse)

Carotene
Sire	Great Nephew
Grandsire	Honeway
Dam	Carrot Top
Damsire	High Hat
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1983
Country	Canada
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Kinghaven Farms
Owner	Kinghaven Farms
Trainer	Roger Attfield
Record	40: 12-8-5
Earnings	$1,267,092
Major wins
Breeders' Stakes (1986) Toronto Cup Stakes (1986) Wonder Where Stakes (1986) Nassau Stakes (1987) Matchmaker Handicap (1987) New Hampshire Sweepstakes Handicap (1987) Yellow Ribbon Stakes (1987) Pan American Handicap (1988)
Awards
Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1986) Canadian Champion Turf Horse (1986, 1987, 1988) Canadian Champion Older Female Horse (1987, 1988)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2003) Carotene Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Carotene (foaled 1983 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who holds the filly or mare record for winning the most Sovereign Awards. Bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms, she was a daughter of the British sire Great Nephew, who also sired Epsom Derby winners Grundy and Shergar. Carotene's dam was Carrot Top, a mare David Willmot purchased in foal from the Whitney family at the 1982 dispersal sale of their bloodstock in the United Kingdom.

Carotene was trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Roger Attfield and raced from a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. In 1985, the two-year-old filly won her only start. The following year, she won the Toronto Cup Stakes, and the Wonder Where Stakes. She ran second in the 1986 E. P. Taylor Stakes and after going to California to race, finished third in the Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

In the 1986 Canadian Triple Crown races for three-year-olds dominated by males, she finished second to Golden Choice in the Prince of Wales Stakes on dirt, then under jockey Richard Dos Ramos won the third and longest leg of the series run on turf, the 1½ mile Breeders' Stakes. Sent to Japan for the 1986 Japan Cup, Carotene finished ninth to winner Jupiter Ireland.