May Hill (horse)
| May Hill | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Hill Clown |
| Grandsire | Hillary |
| Dam | Mabel |
| Damsire | French Beige |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1972 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Percival Williams |
| Owner | Percival Williams |
| Trainer | Peter Walwyn |
| Record | 13:4-3-4 |
| Major wins | |
| Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (1974) Yorkshire Oaks (1975) Park Hill Stakes (1975) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating 102 p (1974), 124 (1975), 106 (1976) Top-rated British three-year-old filly (1975) |
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| Honours | |
| May Hill Stakes at Doncaster Racecourse | |
May Hill (foaled 1972) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from October 1974 until October 1976 she won four of her thirteen races and was placed on seven occasions. She won her only race as a two-year-old but showed moderate form in the early part of her three-year-old season. In the late summer and autumn of 1975, however, she emerged as a top-class filly, winning the Yorkshire Oaks and the Park Hill Stakes and was subsequently rated the best British filly of her generation. She remained in training in 1976, but failed to win in five races. She was then retired to stud and had some success as a broodmare. She is commemorated in the May Hill Stakes a race for two-year-old fillies at Doncaster Racecourse.
May Hill was a "well-made, good-quartered"bay mare with a white star and snip and three white socks bred in England by her owner Percival Williams. She was probably the best horse sired by the American horse Hill Clown, who won the Sunset Handicap in 1967 before being sent to the United Kingdom. May Hill was the third of four foals produced by her dam Mabel, a high-class racemare who won the Yorkshire Oaks in 1965 and was placed in the Oaks Stakes, 1000 Guineas and Park Hill Stakes.
Like Williams' other good horses, which included Pasty, May Hill was sent into training with Peter Walwyn at Lambourn in Berkshire.
May Hill made her racecourse debut over six furlongs at Ascot Racecourse on 9 October in the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (not the current race of the same name) for two-year-old colts and fillies which had not run before 22 September. Ridden by the Welsh jockey Geoff Lewis, she started a 20/1 outsider but produced an impressive burst of acceleration in the closing stages to win by a length from the colt Red Lever, who was conceding eight pounds.
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