Second Set (horse)

Second Set
Sire	Alzao
Grandsire	Lyphard
Dam	Merriment
Damsire	Go Marching
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	28 April 1988
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	J P and M Mangan
Owner	Richard L. Duchossois
Trainer	Luca Cumani David L MacLean
Record	16: 3-2-2
Earnings	£219,672
Major wins
Sussex Stakes (1991)

Second Set (28 April 1988 – February 2008) was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Unraced as a two-year-old he won two minor races in the spring of 1991 and then recorded his biggest success when winning the Group One Sussex Stakes in July. He showed high-class form without winning as a four-year-old but his form deteriorated when he races without success in North America. He was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion and spent most of his stud career in Germany. He had limited success as a sire of winners and died in 2008 at the age of twenty.

Second Set was a bay horse with a white star and two white socks bred in Ireland by J P and M Mangan. He was sired by Alzao, a son of Lyphard who never won above Group Three level, but became a successful breeding stallion, his progeny including Maraahel (Hardwicke Stakes), Shahtoush and Alborada. Second Set's dam Merriment was a descendant of the Epsom Oaks winner Pennycomequick, making her a distant relative of the Kentucky Derby winner Pensive.

The colt was acquired by the American businessman Richard L. Duchossois and sent into training with Luca Cumani at the Bedford House stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. He was ridden in all of his European races by Frankie Dettori.

Second Set made a successful racecourse debut in a seven furlong maiden race at Newmarket Racecourse on 4 May 1991, leading from the start and winning by three and a half lengths from the Dick Hern-trained Claret. Three weeks later he started 8/13 favourite for the Sydney Sandon Stakes at Haydock Park. Dettori again sent the colt into the lead from start and won by two and a half lengths from Claret, with Arokat finishing last of the three runners.

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