Samitar
| Samitar | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Rock of Gibraltar |
| Grandsire | Danehill |
| Dam | Aileen' Gift |
| Damsire | Rainbow Quest |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1 February 2009 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Norman Court Stud |
| Owner | Nick & Olga Dhandsa and John & Zoe Webster Martin S. Schwartz |
| Trainer |
Mick Channon Chad Brown |
| Record | 20: 6-4-4 |
| Earnings | £730,913 |
| Major wins | |
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Albany Stakes (2011) Tattersalls Millions 2yo Fillies' Trophy (2011) Irish 1000 Guineas (2012) Garden City Stakes (2012) |
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Samitar (foaled 1 February 2009) is a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who raced in four countries and won major races in England, Ireland an the United States. She showed good form as a juvenile in 2011, winning the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot and a valuable sales race at Newmarket Racecourse as well as being placed in the May Hill Stakes and the Fillies' Mile. In the following year she recorded an upset win in the Irish 1000 Guineas before being sent to race in North America where she won the Garden City Stakes. She remained in training as a four-year-old and won stakes races at Belmont Park and Saratoga.
Samitar is a bay filly with no white markings bred in England by the Wiltshire-based Norman Court Stud. As a yearling she was consigned to the Tattersalls sale in October 2010 and was bought for 39,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent Gill Richardson. She entered the ownership of Nick & Olga Dhandsa and John & Zoe Webster and was sent into training with Mick Channon at West Ilsley in Berkshire.
Samitar was from the sixth crop of foals sired by Rock of Gibraltar who won seven Group 1 races in a row, including the 2000 Guineas. He has gone on to sire a number of other top racehorses, including Society Rock, Eagle Mountain, Varenar (Prix de la Forêt) and Mount Nelson. Samitar's dam Aileen's Gift was unraced but produced several other winners including the Albany Stakes winner Nijoom Dubai. She was a grand-daughter of Optimistic Lass, who won the Nassau Stakes in 1984 and was the female-line ancestor of Golden Opinion, My Dream Boat and Alice Springs.
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