Gossamer (horse)

Gossamer
Sire	Sadler's Wells
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Brocade
Damsire	Habitat
Sex	Mare
Foaled	20 February 1999
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Gerald Leigh
Owner	Gerald Leigh The Leigh Family
Trainer	Luca Cumani
Record	8: 4-0-1
Earnings	£323,352
Major wins
Prestige Stakes (2001) Fillies' Mile (2001) Irish 1000 Guineas (2002)

Gossamer (foaled 20 February 1999) is a British thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from July 2001 until October 2002 she won four of her eight starts and was one of the best fillies of her generation in Europe at both two and three years of age. As a juvenile she was undefeated in three starts, following up a win in a maiden race with victories in the Group Three Prestige Stakes and the Group One Fillies' Mile. Despite fears that her diminutive stature made her unlikely to improve as a three-year-old, and a defeat when favourite the 1000 Guineas she recovered to record an emphatic success in the Irish 1000 Guineas. The best of her three subsequent appearances came when she finished third to the colt Rock of Gibraltar in the Prix du Moulin. Since her retirement from racing she has become a successful broodmare.

Gossamer is a small bay mare with a white star and a white sock on her right hind foot bred by Gerald Leigh who operated a small but successful breeding operation at his Eydon Hall Farm in Northamptonshire. She was one of the fourteenth crop of foals sired by Sadler's Wells, who won the Irish 2000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes in 1984 went on to be the Champion sire on fourteen occasions. Her dam Brocade was a top-class racemare whose wins included the Prix de la Forêt. As a broodmare, Brocade also produced Gossamer's full brother Barathea and the Summer Stakes winner Free at Last.

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