Gunner B
| Gunner B | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Royal Gunner |
| Grandsire | Royal Charger |
| Dam | Sweet Councillor |
| Damsire | Privy Councillor |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 8 March 1973 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Tom Barratt |
| Owner | Pauline Barratt |
| Trainer | Geoff Toft Henry Cecil |
| Record | 33:14-5-7 |
| Major wins | |
| Cecil Frail Handicap (1976) Andy Capp Handicap (1976) Doonside Cup (1976) Diomed Stakes (1977)) Earl of Sefton Stakes (1978) Brigadier Gerard Stakes (1978) Prince of Wales's Stakes (1978) Eclipse Stakes (1978) Valdoe Stakes (1978) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating 106 (1975), 121 (1976), 116 (1977), 126 (1978) | |
Gunner B (8 March 1973–18 January 2003) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from May 1975 until October 1978 he contested thirty-three races, winning fourteen times, finishing second five times and third seven times. Originally trained in Yorkshire, he won twice as a two-year-old in 1975 before becoming a highly successful handicapper in the following season, when he won the Cecil Frail Handicap, Andy Capp Handicap and the Doonside Cup. He won three races in 1977 including the Group Three Diomed Stakes but appeared to have been well-exposed as a tough, consistent horse who was some way below the best. After joining the stable of Henry Cecil in 1978, however, he emerged as a genuinely top-class horse winning the Earl of Sefton Stakes, Brigadier Gerard Stakes, Prince of Wales's Stakes, Eclipse Stakes and Valdoe Stakes as well as finishing second in the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup and third in the Champion Stakes. After his retirement from racing he became a very successful sire of National Hunt horses. He died in 2003 at the age of thirty.
Gunner B was a "stong, deep-bodied" chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze bred by Tom Barratt at his Harness Grove Stud in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was the best horse sired by the American stallion Royal Gunner, who won the Cornhusker Handicap in 1966 and finished second to Roman Brother and Buckpasser in successive runnings of the Woodward Stakes. Gunner B's dam, Sweet Councillor, was an unraced daughter of Sugarstick, a half sister of the Cambridgeshire Handicap winner Sterope.
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