Premonition (horse)
| Premonition | |
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| Sire | Precipitation |
| Grandsire | Hurry On |
| Dam | Trial Ground |
| Damsire | Fair Trial |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1950 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dunchurch Lodge Stud |
| Owner | Wilfred Penfold Wyatt |
| Trainer | Cecil Boyd-Rochfort |
| Record | 14:8-2-0 |
| Earnings | £27,497 |
| Major wins | |
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Blue Riband Trial Stakes (1953) Irish Derby Stakes (1953, disqualified) Great Voltigeur Stakes (1953) St. Leger Stakes (1953) Yorkshire Cup (1954) |
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| Last updated on July 26, 2008 | |
Premonition (1950–1970) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from autumn 1952 until July 1954 he ran fourteen times and won eight races. He won the Classic St Leger as a three-year-old in 1953, a year in which he also won the Great Voltigeur Stakes and was controversially disqualified in the Irish Derby. He won the Yorkshire Cup as a four-year-old in 1954 before being retire to stud, where he made very little impact as a stallion.
Premonition was a bay horse bred at the Dunchurch Lodge Stud in Warwickshire by his owner, Brigadier Wilfred Penfold Wyatt. He was sired by the Ascot Gold Cup winner Precipitation, a descendant of the Godolphin Arabian. His dam, Trial Ground won one minor race before being bought by Wyatt for 7,800 guineas in December 1948. As a descendant of the broodmare Molly Desmond, Premonition came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 14-c which also produced Brigadier Gerard and St. Paddy.
Wyatt sent the colt into training with Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at his Freemason Lodge stables in Newmarket.
As a two-year-old Premonition did not run until the autumn. He won two races, including the Gainsborough Stakes over one mile at Hurst Park Racecourse.
In early 1953, Premonition was aimed for the Epsom Derby. He began by winning the Blue Riband Trial Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse. In the Trial Stakes at Sandown Park Racecourse he started at odds of 30/100 but was surprisingly beaten by Bandoola, in a slowly run race. At York Racecourse, Premonition established himself as a leading contender for the Derby with an impressive win in the Great Northern Stakes.
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