Look Here | |
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Look Here: Winner of the 2008 Epsom Oaks, painting by Charles Church presented to the Jockey Club in May 2014
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Sire | Hernando |
Grandsire | Niniski |
Dam | Last Look |
Damsire | Rainbow Quest |
Sex | Mare |
Foaled | 28 February 2005 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Lawn Stud |
Owner | Julian Richmond-Watson |
Trainer | Ralph Beckett |
Record | 9: 2-2-3 |
Earnings | £349,705 |
Major wins | |
Epsom Oaks (2008) |
Look Here (foaled 28 February 2005) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the 2008 Epsom Oaks. In a racing career which lasted from October 2007 to October 2009 the filly ran nine times and won two races. After winning her only race as a two-year-old, Look Here finished second on her three-year-old debut. She then won the Classic Oaks over one and a half miles at Epsom, in which she was a 33/1 outsider. Look Here never won another race, but finished third in the St Leger Stakes, Coronation Cup and Pretty Polly Stakes.
Look Here is a bay mare with a white star bred by her owner, Julian Richmond-Watson's Lawn Stud in Northamptonshire, England. Richmond-Watson, the senior steward of the Jockey Club, operated on a small scale: at the time he had only four mares at stud. Look Here was sired by the French stallion Hernando, who won the Prix du Jockey Club and finished second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. As a breeding stallion, his best known offspring is the multiple Group One winner Sulamani. Look Here was one of seven winners produced by her unraced dam Last Look.
The filly was trained throughout her career by Ralph Beckett at Whitsbury, Hampshire.
Look Here made her first and only appearance of 2006 at Salisbury Racecourse in October. She started a 16/1 outsider for the Southampton Maiden Stakes, a one mile race open to colts and fillies, with the colt Doctor Fremantle being made 1/3 favourite. Ridden by Kerrin McAvoy, Look Here took the lead inside the last quarter mile and stayed out the distance well to beat Doctor Fremantle by two and a half lengths.