Moorestyle

Moorestyle
Sire	Manacle
Grandsire	Sing Sing
Dam	Guiding Star
Damsire	Reliance
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	27 April 1977
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	John Parker
Owner	Moores International Furnishings Ltd
Trainer	Robert Armstrong
Record	21:13-5-2
Major wins
European Free Handicap (1980) Norwest Holst Trophy (1980) July Cup (1980) Haydock Sprint Cup (1980) Prix de l'Abbaye (1980) Challenge Stakes (1980, 1981) Prix de la Forêt (1980, 1981) Prix Maurice de Gheest (1981) Diadem Stakes (1981)
Awards
British Horse of the Year (1980) Top-rated European racehorse (1980) Timeform top-rated horse (1980) Timeform rating: 137 in 1980, 132 in 1981
Honours
Mooretyle Convivial Maiden Stakes at York Racecourse.

Moorestyle (1977–1984) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was unfashionably bred, sold cheaply as a yearling and began his career in minor handicap races. As a three-year-old however, he improved to become the one of the outstanding British sprinters of the post-war era and was named the best horse of the year in Europe by all the major rating organisations. His wins that year included the July Cup at Newmarket, the Haydock Sprint Cup, the Prix de l'Abbaye and the Prix de la Forêt. He had further successes as a four-year-old and was retired to stud at the end of 1981. He had little opportunity to prove himself as a stallion, dying of grass sickness in 1984.

Moorestyle was a bay horse bred in England by John Parker. He was sired by Manacle out of the Swedish-bred mare Guiding Star. Manacle was a sprinter whose most notable other offspring was Mendip Man, who dead-heated for first place in the Prix de l'Abbaye in 1976. As a yearling Moorestyle was bought for 4,000 guineas by representatives of Moores International Furnishing and was named to promote the company's products. The colt was sent into training with Robert Armstrong at Newmarket, Suffolk, and was ridden in most of his races by Armstrong's brother-in-law Lester Piggott.

Moorestye ran five times as a two-year-old, winning twice and finishing second twice without racing in top class competition. On his first start as a three-year-old he won the Free Handicap over seven furlongs and was then stepped up to Group one level for the first time when he was sent to France to contest the Poule d'Essai des Poulains. Racing over 1600 metres] (one mile) for the first time he finished second to In Fijar, ahead of the subsequent Washington, D.C. International Stakes winner Argument. On his return to England, Moorestyle won the Norwest Holst Trophy, a handicap race over seven furlongs at York Racecourse in May.

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