Duke of Marmalade

Duke of Marmalade
Duke of Marmalade at the 2008 Breeders' Cup
Sire	Danehill
Grandsire	Danzig
Dam	Love Me True
Damsire	Kingmambo
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2004
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Southern Bloodstock
Owner	Duke of Marmalade Syndicate
Trainer	Aidan O'Brien
Record	16: 6-4-1
Earnings	£1,388,453
Major wins
Prix Ganay (2008) Tattersalls Gold Cup (2008) Prince of Wales's Stakes (2008) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2008) International Stakes (2008)
Awards
European Champion Older Horse (2008)
Last updated on November 18, 2008

Duke of Marmalade (foaled 12 March 2004) is a retired Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He is best known for winning five consecutive Group One races in 2008, for which he was named European Champion Older Horse. Upon retirement at the end of the 2008 racing season he stood as a stallion for Coolmore Stud, being moved between stud farms in Ireland and Australia (a practice known as shuttling). In July 2014 he was sold and relocated to Drakenstein Stud in South Africa where he currently stands.

Duke of Marmalade was owned during his racing career by Sue Magnier and Michael Tabor, winning his first two races as a two-year-old in June 2006. He did not win again until the spring of his four-year-old season, almost twenty-two months later. During this winless period he was sometimes regarded as little more than a pacemaker for more celebrated stable companions such as Dylan Thomas. In his final year of racing he recorded wins in the Prix Ganay, the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and International Stakes. He was retired in October 2008 after running in the Breeders' Cup Classic. Duke of Marmalade sired four European Classic winners in 2015, namely Nutan, Star of Seville, Simple Verse and Sound of Freedom.

Duke of Marmalade is a bay horse standing 16 hands high bred in Ireland by Southern Bloodstock. a division of his owners' Coolmore Stud organisation. Duke of Marmalade weighed 540 kg during his racing career and was trained by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle.