Entrepreneur (horse)
| Entrepreneur | |
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| Sire | Sadler's Wells |
| Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
| Dam | Exclusive Order |
| Damsire | Exclusive Native |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 7 March 1993 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Cheveley Park Stud |
| Owner | Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor |
| Trainer | Michael Stoute |
| Record | 6:3-0-0 |
| Earnings | £189,826 |
| Major wins | |
| 2000 Guineas (1997) | |
Entrepreneur (foaled 4 March 1994) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from August 1996 to September 1997 he ran six times and won three races. After winning two of his three races in 1996 he won the 2000 Guineas on his first start as a three-year-old. Entrepreneur then started the shortest-priced Epsom Derby favourite for fifty years, but finished fourth. After another disappointing run in autumn he was retired to stud.
Entrepreneur is a bay horse bred by the Cheveley Park Stud at Newmarket, Suffolk. He was sired by the fourteen times Champion sire Sadler's Wells out of Exclusive Order, a mare who won the Prix Maurice de Gheest in 1983, making him a brother to the filly Dance A Dream who finished runner-up in the Epsom Oaks. As a yearling he was sent by his breeders to the Tattersalls Houghton sales in September 1995 where he was bought for 600,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent Dermot "Demi" O'Byrne on behalf of John Magnier's Coolmore organisation. During his racing career Entrepreneur was officially owned in partnership by Magnier's wife Susan and Michael Tabor. The colt was trained by Michael Stoute at Newmarket.
Entrepreneur made his first racecourse appearance in a seven furlong maiden race at Newmarket in August. He started favourite at odds of 4/9 in a nine runner field and finished strongly to finish take fourth place, two lengths behind the winner Right Tune. His defeat was later explained by his having taken a keen interest in a filly in the race which had distracted him from the business of racing. Three weeks later he won a similar event at Kempton taking the lead two furlongs out and accelerating away from the other runners to beat Falak by five lengths. In September he was sent to Chester for a minor stakes race for which he started at odds of 1/6. He took the lead inside the final furlong and pulled away to win by two and a half lengths in "impressive" style.
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