Mon Fils
| Mon Fils | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Sheshoon |
| Grandsire | Precipitation |
| Dam | Now What |
| Damsire | Premonition |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1970 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Brenda Davis |
| Owner | Brenda Davis |
| Trainer | Richard Hannon, Sr. |
| Record | 10: 3-1-1 (incomplete) |
| Major wins | |
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Mill Reef Stakes (1972) 2000 Guineas (1973) |
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Mon Fils (foaled 1970) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the classic 2000 Guineas in 1973. As a two-year-old, Mon Fils won two of his seven races including the Mill Reef Stakes. In 1973 he won the 2000 Guineas on soft ground, but ran poorly when strongly fancied for the Epsom Derby. His racing career was ended by injury in the autumn of 1973 and he was retired to stud, where he made no impact as a sire of winners. He was the first classic winner to be trained by Richard Hannon, Sr..
Mon Fils was a big, tall brown horse with a small white star and a white coronet on his left hind foot, bred by his owner Mrs Brenda Davis. He was sired by Sheshoon, an outstanding stayer who won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the Ascot Gold Cup in 1960. As a breeding stallion his overall record was disappointing but he did sire the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sassafras. Mon Fils' dam Now What also produced the Prix Messidor winner Son of Silver and was a granddaughter of Nonats, a broodmare whose other descendants included the leading sprinter Silly Season and the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Saoire.
The colt was sent into training with the twenty-seven-year-old Richard Hannon, Sr. at his stables at East Everleigh in Wiltshire.
Mon Fils was highly-tried as a two-year-old in 1972, running seven times and winning twice. He won the Warminster Stakes at Salisbury Racecourse and recorded his most important win of the year when taking the inaugural running of the Mill Reef Stakes over six furlongs at Newbury Racecourse by a head from Tudenham. He also finished second in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot. In his final race of the season he was tried over one mile in the Observer Gold Cup in which he finished unplaced behind Noble Decree. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the year's best two-year-olds, he was assigned a weight of 116 pounds, fourteen pounds behind the top-rated Noble Decree.
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