Never So Bold
| Never So Bold | |
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| Sire | Bold Lad (IRE) |
| Grandsire | Bold Ruler |
| Dam | Never Never Land |
| Damsire | Habitat |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 26 April 1980 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Mount Rosa Stud |
| Owner | George Tong Kwo Kiun, Edward Kessly |
| Trainer | Robert Armstrong |
| Record | 23:10-4-3 |
| Major wins | |
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Great St. Wilfrid Stakes (1983) Prix de la Porte Maillot (1984) Prix Maurice de Gheest (1984) Diadem Stakes (1984) Temple Stakes (1985) King's Stand Stakes (1985) July Cup (1985) William Hill Sprint Championship (1985) |
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| Awards | |
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Timeform top-rated older male horse (1985) Timeform champion sprinter (1985) Timeform rating 135 |
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Never So Bold (26 April 1980 – 8 February 2000) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was a specialist sprinter who recorded all his important wins at distances between five and six and a half furlongs. After finishing unplaced in his only start as a two-year-old he showed good, but unexceptional form in handicaps the following season. In 1984 he improved to become a top-class performer, winning the Prix de la Porte Maillot and the Prix Maurice de Gheest in France and the Diadem Stakes in England. He made further improvement to become recognised as the best sprinter in Europe in 1985, winning the Temple Stakes, King's Stand Stakes, July Cup and William Hill Sprint Championship. After a poor run in the Breeders' Cup Mile he was retired to stud where he had limited success as a sire of winners.
Never So Bold was a "big, rangy, good-looking" bay horse with a small white star bred by the Mount Rosa Stud. During his racing career he carried the red and white colours of Edward Kessly. He was trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Robert Armstrong, who had trained another outstanding sprinter in Moorestyle, and was ridden in most of his races by the American jockey Steve Cauthen.
Never So Bold was sired by Bold Lad, the leading British and Irish two-year-old of 1966, whose other offspring included the 1000 Guineas winner Waterloo. His dam Never Never Land was an unraced sister of Bombazine, who produced the St Leger winner Bruni.
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