Relkino
| Relkino | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Relko |
| Grandsire | Tanerko |
| Dam | Pugnacity |
| Damsire | Pampered King |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 21 April 1973 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Cleaboy Farms |
| Owner | Lady Beaverbrook |
| Trainer | Dick Hern |
| Record | 16:4-4-1 |
| Major wins | |
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2000 Guineas Trial Stakes (1976) Lockinge Stakes (1977) Benson and Hedges Gold Cup (1977) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating 104 (1975), 123 (1976), 131 (1977) | |
Relkino (21 April 1973 – after 1989) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the highest-priced European of his generation and won four of his sixteen races between July 1975 and October 1977. After winning one race as a two-year-old in 1975 he showed improved form in the early part of the following year, winning the 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes and finishing second to Empery in the Epsom Derby. The rest of his three-year-old career was disappointing but he reached his peak in 1977, winning the Lockinge Stakes over a mile and then recording an upset victory in the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup. After his retirement from racing, he had some success as a breeding stallion.
Relkino was a "very attractive, well-made" bay horse with a white blaze and a white coronet on his right front foot bred by Cleaboy Farms. He was sired by Relko, the French-trained winner of the 1963 Epsom Derby. His dam, Pugnacity, was a "grand racemare" (rated 117 by Timeform), whose wins included the Lowther Stakes, Falmouth Stakes and King George Stakes. She produced several other winners including Triumphant, who in turn produced the Irish Champion Stakes winner Timarida. As a descendant of the broodmare Ballisland, Pugnacity was a distant relative of the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Tarascon.
As a yearling, the colt was offered for sale and bought for 58,000 guineas by the trainer Dick Hern, acting on behalf of Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, Lady Beaverbrook. The price was the highest paid at auction for any yearling in Britain in 1974. Lady Beaverbrook was considered an eccentric character who gave most of her horses names consisting of one word with seven letters (Bustino, Terimon, Boldboy, Niniski, Mystiko, Petoski), as this was the most common form for Derby winners. Relkino was sent into training with Hern at West Ilsley in Berkshire. Relkino was a very headstrong animal with a tendency to bolt: Willie Carson, who rode the horse in some of his major victories admitted that "I couldn't hold one side of him the first time I rode him work".
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