Sire de Grugy

Sire de Grugy
Sire De Grugy at Cheltenham in March 2014.
Sire	My Risk
Grandsire	Take Risks
Dam	Hirlish
Damsire	Passing Sale
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	21 June 2006
Country	France
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	La Grugerie
Owner	Preston Family & Friends
Trainer	Gary Moore
Record	39: 17-7-2 2: 0-1-0 (NHF) 10: 4-1-2 (hurdles) 27: 13-5-0 (fences)
Earnings	£880,835
Major wins
Dovecote Novices' Hurdle (2011) Celebration Chase (2013, 2014) Tingle Creek Chase (2013, 2015) Desert Orchid Chase (2013) Clarence House Chase (2014) Queen Mother Champion Chase (2014)
Awards
British Jump Racing Horse of the Year (2014)

Sire de Grugy (foaled 21 June 2006) is a French-bred, British-trained Selle Francais racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing. He showed promise in his early career, winning the Dovecote Novices' Hurdle at Kempton Park Racecourse in 2011 and emerged as a top class performer with a win in the Celebration Chase in April 2013. In the 2013/2014 National Hunt season he established himself as the leading two-mile steeplechaser in Britain, winning the Tingle Creek Chase, Desert Orchid Chase, Clarence House Chase and the Queen Mother Champion Chase. He has continued to run in top-class two-mile steeplechases without fully recapturing his 2013-14 form, winning one race in each of the following three seasons including a second win in the Tingle Creek Chase.

Sire de Grugy is a chestnut horse with a broad white blaze bred by La Grugerie stud at Pouancé, Maine-et-Loire in France. He was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion My Risk who won seven races including the Prix Quincey, Prix Perth, Prix Edmond Blanc and Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord. Apart from Sire de Grugy, the best of his progeny has been the flat racer No Risk At All who won La Coupe and the Grand Prix de Vichy-Auvergne. Sire de Grugy's dam Hirlish, was not a Thoroughbred, being descended from La Camargo, a mare of unknown parentage, whose descendants have been classified as AQPS or Selle Francais.