Straight Deal

Straight Deal
Sire	Solario
Grandsire	Gainsborough
Dam	Good Deal
Damsire	Appelle
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1940
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Dorothy Paget
Owner	Dorothy Paget
Trainer	Walter Nightingall
Record	10: 5-2-1
Earnings	£
Major wins
New Derby (1943)

Straight Deal (1940–1968) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1942 to 1943 he ran ten times and won five races. His most important success came in June 1943 when he won the “New Derby”, a substitute race for the Epsom Derby run on the July Course at Newmarket. During the Second World War many racecourses were closed either for safety reasons or for military use, with Epsom Downs Racecourse being used as the location for an anti-aircraft battery. Straight Deal was retired after finishing third in the “New St Leger” later that year and went on to become a successful stallion.

Straight Deal was bred at the Elsenham Stud in Hertfordshire by his owner, Dorothy Paget, Straight Deal’s sire, Solario was an outstanding racehorse who won the Coronation Cup and the Ascot Gold Cup in 1926, before going on to be Champion sire three times. Miss Paget's colt was one of only three known foals produced by Good Deal a successful racehorse who won seven times.

Straight Deal, a “headstrong and sulky” bay horse, was trained by Walter Nightingall at his South Hatch Stables near Epsom.

Straight Deal was a very useful two-year-old who competed at the highest level in 1942. He won a race at Salisbury and the Runnymede Plate at Windsor, both over six furlongs. At Newmarket he ran in the Coventry Stakes (transferred from Ascot) in which he finished second, beaten one and a half lengths by Nasrullah.

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