Super Concorde
| Super Concorde | |
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| Sire | Bold Reasoning |
| Grandsire | Boldnesian |
| Dam | Prime Abord |
| Damsire | Primera |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 20 April 1975 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Nelson Bunker Hunt |
| Owner | Walter Haefner |
| Trainer | Francois Boutin |
| Record | 8:4-0-0 |
| Major wins | |
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Prix de Cabourg (1977) Prix Morny (1977) Grand Criterium (1977) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating 128 (1977), 123 (1978) Top-rated French-trained two-year-old (1977) |
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Super Concorde (20 April 1975 – 1987) was an American-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the highest-rated two-year-old in France in 1977 when he won Prix de Cabourg and Prix Morny over sprint distances before defeating a strong field in France's premier race for juveniles, the Grand Criterium. He was disappointing in three runs in 1978 and was retired to stud after having won four of his eight races.
Super Concorde was a "strong, attractive" brown horse bred in Kentucky by Nelson Bunker Hunt. He was from the second of three crops of foals sired by Bold Reasoning, the winner of the Withers Stakes in 1971. Bold Reasoning also sired the American Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew before dying at the age of seven in 1975. Super Concorde's dam, Prime Abord won the Prix de Royallieu and finished seventh when second favourite for the Epsom Oaks in 1970. A daughter of the Oaks winner Homeward Bound, she was born with a club foot and was reportedly bought by Nelson Bunker Hunt only because his agents visited the farm during a snowstorm and failed to notice the deformity.
As a yearling, Super Concorde was sent to the sales and was bought for $200,000 by representatives of Walter Haefner. The colt was sent to Europe where he was trained in France by Francois Boutin.
On his racecourse debut, Super Concorde defeated three opponents in race over 1000 metres at Chantilly Racecourse and then won the Prix de Cabourg over 1200 metres at Deauville. The colt was then moved up in class for the Group One Prix Morny run on 21 August over the same course and distance as the Prix de Cabourg and started the 8/10 favourite after Philippe Paquet elected to ride him in preference to the Prix Robert Papin winner Vific. Super Concorde led soon after the start, as he had done in his previous starts, and held on in the closing stages to win by a neck from Little Love, with the Italian colt El-Muleta a length and a half away in third. The colt started favourite for the Prix de la Salamandre over 1400m at Longchamp Racecourse on 11 September, but failed to reproduce his earlier form, fighting his jockey's attempts to restrain him and finishing fourth of the eight runners behind the British-trained outsider John de Coombe, Bilal and Kenmare.
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