Fleeting Spirit
| Fleeting Spirit | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Invincible Spirit |
| Grandsire | Green Desert |
| Dam | Millennium Tale |
| Damsire | Distant Relative |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 8 March 2005 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Bernadette Hayden |
| Owner | The Searchers syndicate |
| Trainer | Jeremy Noseda |
| Record | 16: 5-5-1 |
| Earnings | £ 695,549 |
| Major wins | |
|
Molecomb Stakes (2007) Flying Childers Stakes (2007) Temple Stakes (2008) July Cup (2009) |
|
| Awards | |
| European Champion Sprinter (2009) | |
Fleeting Spirit is a retired, Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was trained in the United Kingdom during a racing career which lasted from 2007 to 2010. She was a specialist sprinter, running all of her races over five and six furlongs. Fleeting Spirit was the highest-rated British-trained two-year-old filly of 2007 and went on to win the Group Two Temple Stakes at Haydock in 2008 and the Group One July Cup in 2009. In the last named year she was awarded the title of European Champion Sprinter at the Cartier Racing Awards.
Fleeting Spirit, a "delightful little" bay mare with a small white star, was bred at Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland by Bernadette Hayden. The success of Fleeting Spirit led to Mrs Hayden being named as outstanding small breeder of 2007 by the Irish Thorougbred Breeders Association. Fleeting Spirit's sire Invincible Spirit was a sprinter who won the Haydock Sprint Cup in 2002. He has gone on to be a “leading” sire, getting the winners of more than five hundred races including Moonlight Cloud, Lawman (Prix du Jockey Club), Hooray (Cheveley Park Stakes) and Vale of York (Breeders' Cup Juvenile).
Fleeting Spirit was sent as a yearling to the Goffs sales in September 2006 where she was bought for €35,000 by Con Marnane, a bloodstock agent who specialised in "pinhooking"– buying horses at auction and then selling them on at a profit. Seven months later, Marnane's investment paid off at the Tattersalls “breeze-up” sale where the filly was sold for 90,000gns to Anthony Stroud acting on behalf of "The Searchers", a five member syndicate which included Andy Stewart and Paul Roy. She was trained throughout her career at Newmarket, Suffolk by Jeremy Noseda.
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