Ribot (horse)
| Ribot | |
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| Sire | Tenerani |
| Grandsire | Bellini |
| Dam | Romanella |
| Damsire | El Greco |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 27 February 1952 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Federico Tesio |
| Owner | Lydia Tesio & Mario della Rocchetta (Colours: White, red crossbelts, red cap) |
| Trainer | Ugo Penco |
| Record | 16: 16–0–0 |
| Earnings | $294,414 |
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Gran Criterium (1954) Gran Premio del Jockey Club (1955) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1955 & 1956) Gran Premio di Milano (1956) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1956) |
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| Awards | |
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Timeform top rated horse (1956) Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland (1963, 1967, 1968) |
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| Honours | |
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Timeform rating 133 in 1955, 142 in 1956 La Gazzetta dello Sport poll : Ranked No.4 Italian athlete of the 20th century Premio Ribot at Capannelle Racecourse) Horse of the Century (ITA) |
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| Last updated on 21 July 2010 | |
Ribot (February 27, 1952 – April 28, 1972) was a British-bred Italian-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who is considered by many to be one of the greatest racehorses of all time. Undefeated in sixteen races, he won over all distances, from 5 furlongs (1,000m) to 1m 7f (3,000m) in three countries and on all types of track conditions. He was the best Italian two-year-old of 1954, when his three wins included the Gran Criterium. He won his first four races of 1955 in Italy before being sent to France where he won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In the following year he was even better, recording wide-margin victories in both the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Ribot was then retired to stud where he proved to be a highly successful breeding stallion. The performances of Ribot's progeny saw him become the leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland on three occasions (1963, 1967, 1968).
Ribot was bred by Italy's leading Thoroughbred breeder, Federico Tesio, who personally bred six of the horses that appeared in the first three generations of Ribot's pedigree. Ribot was foaled at the English National Stud at Newmarket, Suffolk on 27 February 1952. He was sired by Tenerani an outstanding Italian racehorse whose most notable international success came when he defeated the French champion Arbar in the 1948 Goodwood Cup. Ribot's dam Romanella was a successful broodmare who also produced the Premio Regina Elena winner Rossellina and the Premio Parioli winner Raeburn.
He was described as being a "medium-sized bay with a lovely intelligent head and a perfect temperament. The secret of his success was probably his depth through the heart and there was not a girth at Dormello to fit him." Like many of Tesio's horses, Ribot was named after an artist—in this case, the French realist Théodule-Augustin Ribot. Tesio, who also bred the undefeated and prepotent sire Nearco, did not live to see Ribot develop into a champion. After Tesio's death in May 1954, Ribot was raced by Tesio's widow Donna Lydia and his business partner, Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta.
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