Scenic (horse)

Scenic
Sire	Sadler's Wells
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Idyllic
Damsire	Foolish Pleasure
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	13 April 1986
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Lyonstown Stud
Owner	Sheikh Mohammed
Trainer	Barry Hills
Record	12: 4-2-1
Earnings	£156,637
Major wins
Dewhurst Stakes (1988) Scottish Classic (1989)
Awards
Timeform rating 128 (1988) Timeform top-rated two-year-old (1988)
Honours
Scenic Lodge Stud

Scenic (13 April 1986 – 6 March 2005) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. As a juvenile in 1988 he was beaten on his debut but won his next three races, ending his season by dead-heating with Prince of Dance in the Dewhurst Stakes. As a three-year-old he won the Scottish Classic, as well as finishing third in the St James's Palace Stakes and fourth in the Champion Stakes. He failed to win in three starts in 1990 and was retired to stud at the end of the year. He later became a very successful breeding stallion in Australia, where he died in 2005.

Scenic was a bay horse with a white blaze and four white socks bred in Ireland by the Lyonstown Stud. He was acquired as a yearling by Sheikh Mohammed. The colt was sent into training in England with Barry Hills at Lambourn in Berkshire and was ridden in all but one of his races by Hills' son Michael.

Scenic was from the first crop of foals sired by Sadler's Wells, who won the Irish 2000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes in 1984 went on to be the Champion sire on fourteen occasions. Scenic's dam Idyllic was an unraced daughter of the outstanding broodmare Where You Lead, whose other female-line descendants have included Rainbow Quest, Warning and Commander In Chief.

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