Chanteur

Chanteur
Sire	Chateau Bouscaut
Grandsire	Kircubbin
Dam	La Diva
Damsire	Blue Skies
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1942
Country	France
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Francois Dupre
Owner	Duc Decazes, R. Wallon & P. Magot William Hill
Trainer	Henry Count
Record	26:10-6-4
Earnings	4,116,150 francs in France £11,344 in England.
Major wins
Prix de Fontainebleau (1945) Prix Hocquart (1945) Prix Henry Delamarre (1945) Prix Jean Prat (four-year-olds) (1946) Prix Edmond Blanc (1947) Prix des Sablons (1947) Grand Prix du Tremblay (1947) White Rose Stakes (1947) Winston Churchill Stakes (1947) Coronation Cup (1947)
Awards
Timeform top-rated older horse (1947) Timeform rating 135 Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland (1953)

Chanteur (also known as Chanteur II; 1942–1962) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who was one of a group of French horses, including Caracalla, Marsyas, Arbar and Souverain, which dominated long distance racing in Europe in the immediate post-war years. Unraced as a two-year-old, Chanteur won the Prix Hocquart in 1945 and the Prix Jean Prat in 1946. He reached his peak as a five-year-old when he won six races including the Prix des Sablons in France and the Coronation Cup in Britain. He was also placed in many important races including the Grand Prix de Paris, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Prix Royal Oak, Prix du Cadran and Ascot Gold Cup. At the end of his racing career he was retired to stand as a breeding stallion in Britain, where he had considerable success as a sire of winners.

Chanteur was a brown horse with a broad white blaze bred by Francois Dupre at the Haras d'Ouilly stud farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados. He was the most notable horse sired by Chateau Bouscaut, a French stallion whose wins included the Prix du Jockey Club in 1930 and the Prix du Cadran a year later. Chanteur's dam La Diva was a half-sister to the Grand Criterium winner Pantalon. La Diva later produced La Divine, the dam of Tanerko, a colt who won two runnings of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and sired the Derby winner Relko. Chanteur was trained at Chantilly by the Anglo-French trainer Harry Count. Chanteur was reportedly a horse with a strong character: he was the first horse awake at his stable and would "shout" loudly until he was fed. At exercise he refused to exert himself for an ordinarily-dressed stable lad, only showing interest when he was mounted by a jockey in racing silks. When racing in Britain, and later when standing there as a stallion the horse was known as "Chanteur II".

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