Military attack
| Military Attack | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Oratorio |
| Grandsire | Danehill |
| Dam | Almaaseh |
| Damsire | Dancing Brave |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 4 March 2008 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | P E Banahan |
| Owner | Gary & Linnet Woodward Mr & Mrs Steven Lo Kit Sing |
| Trainer |
John Hills John Moore Caspar Fownes |
| Record | 29: 9-4-3 |
| Earnings | HKD$50,651,025 |
| Major wins | |
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January Cup (2013) Hong Kong Gold Cup (2013, 2014) Premier Plate (2013) Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2013) Singapore Airlines International Cup (2013) Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy (2014) |
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| Awards | |
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Hong Kong Horse of the Year (2013) Hong Kong Most Popular Horse of the Year (2013) Hong Kong Champion Middle-distance Horse (2013) |
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Military Attack (Chinese: 軍事出擊, originally named Rave) (foaled 4 March 2008) is an Irish-bred, Hong Kong trained Thoroughbred racehorse. Unraced as a two-year-old he showed promising form in Britain in 2011 before being sold to race in Hong Kong. He continued to show useful but unexceptional form before emerging as a dominant middle-distance performer in the early part of 2013, winning the January Cup, Hong Kong Gold Cup, Premier Plate, Queen Elizabeth II Cup and Singapore Airlines International Cup. In July 2013 at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Champion Awards, he won three awards including the title of Hong Kong Horse of the Year.
Military Attack is a bay gelding with a white coronet on his left hind foot, bred in Ireland by P E Banahan at the Moortown Stud in County Meath. He was from the second crop of foals sired by Oratorio, an Irish racehorse best known for his wins in the Eclipse Stakes and the Irish Champion Stakes in 2005. His dam Almaaseh was a daughter of the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Al Bahathri, making her a half sister of the 2000 Guineas winner Haafhd.
As a yearling the colt was consigned by the Moortown Stud to the Goff's sale where he was bought for €40,000 by a partnership involving the trainer John Hills. The colt was named Rave and was trained by Hills at Lambourn in Berkshire.
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