Coronation (French horse)
| Coronation | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Djebel |
| Grandsire | Tourbillon |
| Dam | Esmeralda |
| Damsire | Tourbillon |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1946 |
| Country | France |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Marcel Boussac |
| Owner | Marcel Boussac |
| Trainer | Charles Semblat |
| Record | 13: 6-4-1 |
| Major wins | |
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Queen Mary Stakes (1948) Prix Robert Papin (1948) Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (1949) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1949) |
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| Awards | |
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Timeform top-rated three-year-old filly (1949) Timeform rating 135 |
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Coronation (also known as Coronation V, foaled 1946) was a French racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from the spring of 1948 until October 1950, she ran thirteen times and won six races. As a two-year-old she was one of the best fillies of her generation in Europe, winning the Queen Mary Stakes in England and the Prix Robert Papin in France. In the following year she dead-heated for the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, but was beaten in both the Oaks Stakes and the Irish Oaks. In October 1949 she established her reputation as one of the best fillies to race in Europe in the 20th century when she emphatically defeated a strong international field in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Her subsequent racing career was disappointing and she was a complete failure as a broodmare.
Coronation was a bay mare with a white blaze and a white sock on her right hind leg, bred by her owner Marcel Boussac at his Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard in Neuvy-au-Houlme in Lower Normandy. Coronation raced in the Boussac colours of "orange jacket, grey cap" and was trained at Chantilly by the former jockey Charles Semblat.
Coronation's sire Djebel, also bred and raced by Boussac, won the 2000 Guineas in 1941 and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe two years later. He went on to become Leading sire in France on four occasions, and sired many important winners including My Babu, Galcador and Arbar. Djebel's success as a breeding stallion was largely responsible for the survival of the Byerley Turk sire line. Because of the presence of certain American bloodlines in the pedigree of his sire Tourbillon, Djebel was considered "half-bred" (non-Thoroughbred) by the General Stud Book until 1949. Coronation was closely inbred to Tourbillon, as the stallion was also the sire of her dam, Esmeralda. Coronation was the first foal of Esmeralda, a top-class racehorse who won the Prix Morny and the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches.
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