Pillion (horse)

Pillion
Sire	Chaucer
Grandsire	St Simon
Dam	Double Back
Damsire	Bachelor's Double
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1923
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
Owner	Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
Trainer	John Watson
Record	8: 3-3-0
Major wins
1000 Guineas (1926)

Pillion (1923 – after 1938) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a juvenile in 1925 she showed promising form by winning once and finishing second in three races including the Rous Memorial Stakes and the Cheveley Park Stakes. On her three-year-old debut she recorded a 25/1 upset victory in the 1000 Guineas. She was retired from racing at the end of the season and had some influence as a broodmare.

Pillion was a bay mare bred and owned by Anthony Gustav de Rothschild. She was set into training with John Watson at the Palace House stable in Newmarket in Suffolk.

Her sire Chaucer won the Gimcrack Stakes as a juvenile in 1902, and later proved himself a high-class performer in handicap races. As a breeding stallion he sired the 1000 Guineas winner Canyon and was the damsire of Fairway, Hyperion, Pharos and Sickle. Pillion's dam Double Back also produced the Coventry Stakes winner Reflector and was a descendant of the influential broodmare Sunray.

In 1925 Pillion recorded her only win from five starts at Nottingham Racecourse in summer when she won the £1,000 Nottinghamshire Breeders' Foal Plate. In the Rous Memorial Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in July she ran well but was no match for the colt Coronach. In October, Pillion finished second to Karra in the Cheveley Park Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse. In her two other races that year the filly finished second in the Houghton Stakes and ran fourth in the Champion Breeders' Foal Stakes at Derby.

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