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Kris Kin

Kris Kin
Racing silks of Saeed Suhail.svg
Racing colours of Saeed Suhail
Sire Kris S.
Grandsire Roberto
Dam Angel in my Heart
Damsire Rainbow Quest
Sex Stallion
Foaled 5 March 2000
Country United States
Colour Chestnut
Breeder Flaxman Holdings Ltd
Owner Saeed Suhail
Trainer Sir Michael Stoute
Record 7: 3-0-2
Earnings ₤991,379
Major wins
Dee Stakes (2003)
Epsom Derby (2003)
Last updated on August 24, 2007

Kris Kin (5 March 2000 – August 2012) was a retired Thoroughbred race horse, and active sire. He was bred in the United States but was trained in England during his racing career. In a career that lasted just over a year, from October 2002 to October 2003, he ran seven times and won three races, most notably the Epsom Derby in 2003. Kris Kin stood as a stallion in Italy, before being exported to stand in Libya, where he died in 2012.

Kris Kin is a chestnut horse, bred in Kentucky by Flaxman Holdings Ltd, the American breeding division of the Niarchos family's racing interests.

He was sired by Kris S. a son of Roberto out of the Rainbow Quest mare Angel In My Heart. Apart from Kris Kin, Kris S. sired the winners of more than 20 Group One/Grade I races, including Symboli Kris S (Arima Kinen, Tenno Sho), Brocco (Breeders' Cup Juvenile) and Dr Fong. (St. James's Palace Stakes). Angel In My Heart won the Group Three Prix de Psyche in 1995 and was placed in the Yellow Ribbon Stakes and the Matriarch Stakes. She was a half-sister of the Prix de la Salamandre winner Common Grounds.


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