Glad Rags II

Glad Rags
Sire	High Hat
Grandsire	Hyperion
Dam	Dryad
Damsire	Panorama
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1963
Country	Ireland
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Captain D. Rogers
Owner	Alice du Pont Mills
Trainer	Vincent O'Brien
Record	7: 3-0-2
Major wins
Railway Stakes (1965) 1,000 Guineas Stakes (1966)
Awards
Irish Champion 2-Year-Old Filly (1965)

Glad Rags (foaled 1963) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After proving herself the best Irish filly of her generation in a brief two-year-old career, she won the British Classic 1,000 Guineas Stakes on her three-year-old debut. Her subsequent racing career was disappointing, but she has had considerable influence as a broodmare.

Glad Rags was a chestnut filly bred in Ireland by Captain D Rogers. She was sired by High Hat, who won several races (including an upset victory over Petite Etoile) for his owner Sir Winston Churchill. Her dam, Dryad won four minor races and also produced the Stewards' Cup winner Victorina. Glad Rags was only the second Classic winner, after the 1874 Epsom Derby winner George Frederick to be produced by Thoroughbred Family 13-b.

As a yearling, Glad Rags was sent to the Newmarket sales where she was bought for 6,800 guineas by American Alice du Pont Mills, a member of the prominent Du Pont family who was an advisory trustee to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame at Saratoga Springs, New York, and a director of the American Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.

Glad Rags was sent into training with Vincent O'Brien at his Ballydoyle stable.

Despite running only three times in 1965, Glad Rags proved herself the best two-year-old filly in Ireland. After winning a race over five furlongs at Leopardstown, she defeated a field of colts to take the Railway Stakes over six furlongs at the Curragh. On her final start of the season she was sent to England to contest the Royal Lodge Stakes over a mile at Ascot. Racing in mixed-sex company she finished third to the leading British filly Soft Angels.

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