Commander in Chief (horse)

Commander in Chief
The second colours of Khalid Abdullah, carried by Commander in Chief in the 1993 Derby
Sire	Dancing Brave
Grandsire	Lyphard
Dam	Slightly Dangerous
Damsire	Roberto
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	18 May 1990
Country	Great Britain
Colour	Bay or Brown
Breeder	Juddmonte Farms
Owner	Khalid Abdullah
Trainer	Henry Cecil
Record	6: 5-0-1
Earnings	$1,579,300
Major wins
Glasgow Stakes (1993) Epsom Derby (1993) Irish Derby Stakes (1993)
Awards
European Three-Year-Old Champion Colt (1993)
Last updated on February 3, 2007

Commander in Chief (1990–2007) was a British thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted just over three months in the spring and summer of 1993 he won five of his six races, most notably the Derby at Epsom and the Irish Derby at the Curragh. He was the first Derby winner since Morston in 1973 not to have raced as a two-year-old. Furthermore, the Racing Post had not even included him in their list of horses for the 1993 Ten-to-Follow on the flat competition. Commander in Chief was voted the 1993 Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt.

Commander in Chief was a dark bay colt (officially "bay or brown") with a white snip, bred by his owner's Juddmonte Farms breeding organisation. He was sired by Dancing Brave out of Slightly Dangerous. Dancing Brave was the most highly rated British racehorse of the 1980s winning a series of major races culminating in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. At stud, he was a modest success, siring the Group One winners White Muzzle, Wemyss Bight and Cherokee Rose before being sold and exported to Japan in 1991. Slightly Dangerous finished second in the 1982 Epsom Oaks and went on to be an outstanding broodmare, producing the Group One/Grade I winners Warning and Yashmak as well as the Epsom Derby runner-up Dushyantor.

Commander in Chief was trained for all his starts by Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable at Newmarket, Suffolk. He was ridden in all of his races other than the Derby by the eleven times Champion Jockey Pat Eddery.