Sing Sing (horse)
| Sing Sing | |
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| Sire | Tudor Minstrel |
| Grandsire | Owen Tudor |
| Dam | Agin the Law |
| Damsire | Portlaw |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1957 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Dark bay |
| Breeder | W J Stirling |
| Owner | W J Stirling |
| Trainer | Jack Watts |
| Record | 9: 6-2-0 |
| Earnings | £12,834 |
| Major wins | |
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National Breeders' Produce Stakes (1959) Cornwallis Stakes (1959) |
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| Awards | |
| Top-rated British two-year-old (1959) Timeform top-rated two-year-old (1959) Timeform rating: 134 |
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Sing Sing (1957 – 22 April 1972) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the leading British two-year-old of 1959, when he was unbeaten in six races including the National Breeders' Produce Stakes and the Cornwallis Stakes. As a three-year-old he failed to win in three races, being narrowly beaten in the King's Stand Stakes and the King George Stakes. He was then retired to stud where he had considerable success as a sire of sprinters. He died in 1972.
Sing Sing was a powerfully built dark bay horse with a white blaze standing 16.1 hands high bred by his owner W J Stirling. He was sired by Tudor Minstrel, the winner of the 2000 Guineas in 1947 and the leading colt of his generation in Britain. Tudor Minstrel's other progeny included the Kentucky Derby winner Tomy Lee. His dam Agin the Law was a great-granddaughter on the influential broodmare whose other descendants included Tourbillon, Darshaan, Akiyda and Sinndar. Stirling sent his horse into training with J F Watts at his Wroughton House stable in Newmarket.
Sing Sing began his racing career by winning the Pampisford Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse and followed up by winning the Scarborough Stakes at Doncaster. He was moved up in class for the National Stakes over five furlongs at Sandown Park Racecourse and won from Redgauntlet and Lombard. He won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at York Racecourse and the Rous Stakes before contesting the Cornwallis Stakes over five furlongs at Ascot on 10 October. Ridden by the champion jockey Doug Smith he started at odds of 4/6 and won from Queensberry and Sound Track.
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