Right Royal
| Right Royal | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Owen Tudor |
| Grandsire | Hyperion |
| Dam | Bastia |
| Damsire | Victrix |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1958 |
| Country | France |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Elisabeth Couturié |
| Owner | Elisabeth Couturié |
| Trainer | Etienne Pollet |
| Record | 11:8-2-0 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix de la Salamandre (1960) Grand Criterium (1960) Poule d'Essai des Poulains (1961) Prix Lupin (1961) Prix du Jockey Club (1961) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1961) Prix Henri Foy (1961) |
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| Honours | |
| British Horse of the Year (1961) | |
Right Royal (1958–1973) was a French Thoroughbred race horse and sire. He was the best two-year-old in France in 1960 when his wins included the Grand Criterium. He was the dominant three-year-old of his generation in Europe in the spring and summer of 1961, winning the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Prix du Jockey Club and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Right Royal was defeated in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and was retired to stud where he had some success as a breeding stallion.
Right Royal was a brown horse bred in France by his owner Elisabeth Couturié. He was sired by the Epsom Derby winner Owen Tudor out of Bastia, a mare who never won a race and spent most of her racing career acting as a pacemaker for her more talented stable companion Tahiti, the winner of the 1954 Prix de Diane. Couturié sent her colt into training with Etienne Pollet at Chantilly.
Right Royal won three of his four races as a two-year-old. He won the Prix de la Salamandre and the Grand Criterium at Longchamp. At the end of the year he was rated the best colt of his generation in France.
On his first appearance as a three-year-old, Right Royal was beaten in the Prix de Fontainebleau in April, after being given a questionable ride by Roger Poincelet. He then re-established himself as the best colt in France by winning the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, the Prix Lupin and the Prix du Jockey Club. In the Prix du Jockey Club he won by three lengths from Match at odds of 9/5.
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