Opera House (horse)

Opera House
Racing colours of Sheikh Mohammed
Sire	Sadler's Wells
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Colorspin
Damsire	High Top
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1988
Country	Great Britain
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Meon Valley Stud
Owner	Sheikh Mohammed
Trainer	Michael Stoute
Record	18: 8-4-3
Earnings	£737,701 + F1,200,000
Major wins
Tattersalls Rogers Gold Cup (1992) Brigadier Gerard Stakes (1992) Cumberland Lodge Stakes (1992) Coronation Cup (1993) Eclipse Stakes (1993) K. George VI & Q. Elizabeth Stakes (1993)
Awards
European Champion Older Horse (1993)
Last updated on June 25, 2009

Opera House (foaled February 24, 1988) is a retired British thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. In a racing career which lasted from October 1990 until November 1993 he ran eighteen times and won eight races. Opera House was best known for his performances as a five-year-old in 1993, when he won three Group One races, including the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was named European Champion Older Horse. Retired to stud in Japan, he developed into a top-class sire in the country, supplying seven-time Grade 1 hero T M Opera O, four-time Group 1 winner Meisho Samson and multiple Group scorer Miyabi Ranveli.

Opera House, a bay horse with a white star, was bred by the Meon Valley Stud in Hampshire. He was sired by Sadler's Wells, out of Colorspin, a daughter of High Top. Sadler's Wells (1981-2001) won three Group One races in 1984 and went on to sire the winners of over 2,000 races including more than 130 at Group One/Grade I level. He was the most successful sire in the history of British racing being the leading Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland a record fourteen times. Colorspin won the Irish Oaks and was a half-sister of the Prix de l'Opera winner Bella Colora and the Irish Champion Stakes winner Cezanne. Apart from Opera House, she also produced his full brother, the champion stayer Kayf Tara and the Prix de l'Opera winner Zee Zee Top.

Opera House raced in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed and was trained throughout his career by Michael Stoute at Newmarket, Suffolk. His most regular jockeys were Steve Cauthen and Michael Roberts.