It's A Dundeel

It's a Dundeel
Racing colours of Arrowfield Stud
Sire	High Chaparral
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Stareel
Damsire	Zabeel
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	18/11/2009
Country	New Zealand
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Murray & Jo Andersen
Owner	Arrowfield It's A Dundeel Syndicate
Trainer	Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman
Record	19: 10-4-1
Earnings	AU$5,392,165
Major wins
Gloaming Stakes (2012) Spring Champion Stakes (2012) Randwick Guineas (2013) Rosehill Guineas (2013) Australian Derby (2013) Underwood Stakes (2013) Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2014)
Awards
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing's Horse of the Year (2014) New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing's Champion Middle Distance Horse (2014) Australian Middle Distance Horse of the Year (2014) NSW Champion Horse of the Year (2013) NSW Champion Three-Year-Old (2013) New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing's Champion Three-Year-Old (2013)

Dundeel, or It’s a Dundeel as he is known in Australia, is a champion New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse.

Dundeel is a bay colt trained by trainer Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman at Murray's Cambridge stables. When in Australia Dundeel was managed by son Bjorn Baker at his Warwick Farm stables. The story of his life is provided on his website.

His sire High Chaparral won Epsom Derby in 2002 and the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2002 and 2003. As a stallion he is best known as the sire of So You Think.

Dundeel started his racing career with five straight wins culminating in the 2012 Spring Champion Stakes. He had previously added to his unbeaten record with another win in the Group 3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) also at Randwick in Sydney.

In the autumn of 2013 he became the first horse to win the coveted Australian Triple Crown since Octagonal in 1996. He won the first leg in the 2013 Randwick Guineas (1600m). This victory was followed up by a comfortable 6.8 length win in the 2013 Rosehill Guineas (2000m). He completed the Australian Triple Crown in style with a 6 length win in the Australian Derby (2400m) and in doing so he also became the first ever to do so since the first leg moved from the Canterbury Guineas in 2006. He also becomes the first horse to win a clean sweep of the four major Group 1 three-year-old races run in Sydney, having previously won the 2012 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m), an Australian Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at Set Weights, raced at the Randwick Racecourse, Sydney with prize money of A$400,000. His fantastic three-year-old season was recognised in receiving the 2013 NSW Champion Horse of the Year.