Coneygree

Coneygree
Coneygree, April 2015
Sire	Karinga Bay
Grandsire	Ardross
Dam	Plaid Maid
Damsire	Executive Perk
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	23 February 2007
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	John Oaksey
Owner	The Max Partnership
Trainer	Mark Bradstock
Record	13: 9-1-2 7:5-1-1 (Chases) 4:3-0-1 (Hurdles) 2:1-0-0 (Bumpers)
Earnings	£520,223
Major wins
Hyde Novices' Hurdle (2012) Bristol Novices' Hurdle (2012) Berkshire Novices' Chase (2014) Kauto Star Novices' Chase (2014) Denman Chase (2015) Cheltenham Gold Cup (2015)
Last updated on 26 April 2017

Coneygree (foaled 23 February 2007) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt races . In March 2015, he became the first novice chaser to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup for more than forty years. His subsequent career has been hampered by injury and he has not run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup since winning it.

Coneygree is a bay horse bred in the United Kingdom by John Oaksey, a leading amateur jockey who later became a successful broadcaster and charity fundraiser before his death in 2012. Coneygree was from the final crop of foals sired by Karinga Bay, a son of Ardross, who won the Gordon Stakes and finished fifth in the 1990 Epsom Derby. Coneygree's dam Plaid Maid won five races and later became a successful broodmare, producing Hennessy Gold Cup winner Carruthers. Sara Bradstock described Plaid Maid as a "tiny little mare that we bought for nothing, who people thought was a joke".

Throughout his racing career, Coneygree has been trained at Letcombe Bassett in Oxfordshire by Mark Bradstock, the husband of John Oaksey's daughter Sara. He was ridden in all of his early races by Mattie Batchelor.

Coneygree made his racecourse debut on 24 November 2011 when he won a National Hunt Flat race at Uttoxeter Racecourse, taking the lead three furlongs from the finish and beating Dannanceys Hill by three and three quarter lengths at odds of 10/1. On his only other appearance, he finished eighth behind Shutthefrontdoor at Newbury Racecourse in February after weakening in the last quarter mile.