Snurge

Snurge
Sire	Ela-Mana-Mou
Grandsire	Pitcairn
Dam	Finlandia
Damsire	Faraway Son
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	12 March 1987
Country	Ireland
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Kilcarn Stud
Owner	Martyn Arbib
Trainer	Paul Cole
Record	34: 7-10-5
Earnings	£1,281,535 (approximate)
Major wins
Criterium de Saint-Cloud (1989) disqualified St. Leger Stakes (1990) Aston Park Stakes (1991) Gran Premio di Milano (1992) Grand Prix de Deauville (1991, 1993) Premio Roma Vecchia (1991) Canadian International Stakes (1992)

Snurge (12 March 1987 – November 2006), was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from September 1989 until September 1994, he ran thirty-four times and won seven races. He recorded his most important success when winning the Classic St. Leger Stakes as a three-year-old maiden in 1990. In the following seasons he won major races in France, Italy and Canada, before retiring as a seven-year-old. At the time of his retirement he held the record for prize money won by a European-trained horse, although the precise total of his earnings was difficult to determine because of the number of different currencies involved.

Snurge was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze bred at the Kilcarn Stud near Navan in County Meath, Ireland. Before his racing career began he entered the ownership of the British businessman Martyn Arbib, who named the colt after a nickname he received while in school. Snurge was sired by the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Ela-Mana-Mou out of the French-bred mare Finlandia. The horse was trained by Paul Cole at Whatcombe, near Wantage in Oxfordshire and ridden in all but two of his races by Richard Quinn.

Snurge made his first appearance in the Haynes, Hanson and Clark Conditions Stakes over one mile at Newbury Racecourse on 22 September and finished third of the nine runners behind Tanfith. A month later he ran in a ten furlong maiden race at Nottingham. He took the lead briefly before finishing second to Blue Stag, a horse who went on to be the runner-up in the 1990 Epsom Derby. In November, Snurge was sent to France and moved up in class to contest the Group One Criterium de Saint-Cloud. He finished first by three lengths from Intimiste, but was "controversially" disqualified and placed second by the racecourse stewards.

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