Sixties Icon
| Sixties Icon | |
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| Sire | Galileo |
| Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
| Dam | Love Divine |
| Damsire | Diesis |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 16 February 2003 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Lordship Stud |
| Owner | Susan Roy |
| Trainer | Jeremy Noseda |
| Record | 17: 8-1-1 |
| Earnings | £533,336 |
| Major wins | |
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Gordon Stakes (2006) St. Leger Stakes (2006) Jockey Club Stakes (2007) Glorious Stakes (2008) Geoffrey Freer Stakes (2008) Cumberland Lodge Stakes (2008) |
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Sixties Icon (foaled 14 February 2003), is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. In a career which lasted from April 2006 until November 2008, he ran seventeen times and won eight races. He recorded his most important victory when winning the Classic St. Leger Stakes as a three-year-old. He won five other Group Races before being retired to stud.
Sixties Icon is a bay horse bred by the Newmarket-based Lordship Stud. He is exceptionally well-bred, being sired by the 2001 Epsom Derby winner Galileo out of the 2000 Epsom Oaks winner Love Divine. In October 2004, Sixties Icon was sent as a yearling to the Tattersalls sales at Newmarket, where he was bought for 230,000 guineas by John Warren Bloodstock. The colt was sent into training with Jeremy Noseda at Newmarket.
Sixties Icon began his racing career by finishing sixth of the twelve runners in maiden race at Newmarket in April 2006. Three weeks late he started 6/4 favourite for a similar event at Windsor and won by three-quarters of a length from Fleeting Memory.
Sixties Icon was then sent to Epsom to contest the Epsom Derby. Starting a 66/1 outsider he stayed on in the closing stages to finish seventh, five and a half lengths behind Sir Percy. Later in June he finished third to Papal Bull in the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot. In August, Sixties Icon recorded his first Group Race win in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood. Ridden by Frankie Dettori he was settled in fourth place before taking the lead in the straight and winning by one and three quarter lengths from Jadalee.
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